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Living Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished…
- Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy. Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult. For all living beings in…
- Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in…
- It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing…
- What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?
- Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer…
- Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they…
- Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.
- Art too is just a way of living.
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov