You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. — 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
Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don’t know what… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not… — 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… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Look, I am living. On what? Neither the childhood nor future/ grows any smaller...Superabundant being/ wells up in my heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. — 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
“I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am able more and more to make use of that long patience you have taught me by your tenacious example; that… — 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
It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me against his… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside.… — 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… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussions, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Some day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer signify merely an opposite of the masculine, but something… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You must realise that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand… — 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… — 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
“Your life will no doubt find its own paths. That they be good ones, and rich and expansive, that I wish for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth. — 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
“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
Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. — 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
“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
