It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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