Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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