There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
RAINER MARIA RILKEHe 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.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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