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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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