There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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