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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
"The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you."
"It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity."
"All companionship can consist only in the strengthening of two neighboring solitudes."
"Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation."
"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born."
"Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate and celebrate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it."
"The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise."
"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."
"Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other."
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist 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."
"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
"Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."
"Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others."
"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches."
"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."
"My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying."
"Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive."
"The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude."
"Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you."
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