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.
RAINER MARIA RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
More Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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 deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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