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Giving Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
- And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants…
- There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with…
- You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.
- Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command…
- This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing…
- Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may…
- To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love…
- Society has been able to create refuges of every sort, for since it preferred to take love-life as an amusement, it also had to give…
- Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take…
- This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
- You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter…
- you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret
- Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of…
- For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breathe ourselves out and away; with each new heartfire we give off a fainter scent.…
- You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is why: I hear…
- We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.
- 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…
- I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself…
- All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself,…
- God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly…
- You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step…
- I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real…
More Giving Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi