For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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