Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things… — 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
I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons… — 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
What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large... — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Long you must suffer, knowing not what, until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you. Then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments. — 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
Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help. — 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
What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
