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Moments Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is…
- 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…
- If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now…
- Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.
- A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish…
- One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!
- I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.
- God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing…
- Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to…
- The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and…
- Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by.
- If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow
- Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we…
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