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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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 only journey is the one within.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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 is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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