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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Courage, Empowerment
Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Inspirational, Life
Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Life, Heart

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Compassion, Flare Up
Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Life, Greatness

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, 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.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Inspirational, Life
Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Life, Success
Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (1983). “The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”, Random House (NY)

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Life, Hoe
Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Humble, Angel
"Letters to Merline, 1919-1922".

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Lying, Want
"Selected Poems".

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, People, Alive
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Anniversary, Marriage
Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.34, W. W. Norton & Company

For bel.i.eve me, the more one is, the richer is all one experiences. And whoever wants to have deep love in his life must collect and save for it and gather honey.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Inspirational, Deep Love, Greatest Love

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