Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
