Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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