“That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Do not watch yourself too closely. Do not draw over-rapid conclusions from what is happening to you. Simply let it happen. Otherwise… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But now that so much is changing, isn't it time for us to change? Couldn't we try to gradually develop and slowly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Always trust yourself. If it turns out you are wrong, then that natural course of your inner life will lead you to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“For there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“It’s true enough, of course, no longer to live on earth is strange, to abandon customs barely mastered yet, not to interpret… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Perfection’s firsts, creation’s pampered favourites, the peaks and summits we look to where they redden in the first touch of the created… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand;… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Things are not all so comprehensible and utterable as people would mostly have us believe; most events are unutterable, consummating themselves in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. — 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
