The only journey is the one within.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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All 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.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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