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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

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

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Life, Beauty

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Beautiful, Appreciation

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Solitude, Introvert

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Strength, Faith
Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Life, Inspiring
John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Patience, Heart
Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). “Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

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

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Marriage, Insperational
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Children, Flower
Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Life, Sexy

To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Mean, Light
Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Simple, Ordinary

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Measles, Love You

No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you.

Rainer Maria Rilke
Love, Girl, Mother
1923 Duinieser Elegien, no.3 (translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke,1989).

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