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Perhaps Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- 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…
- Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.
- 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…
- 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…
- Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you…
- You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that…
- Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.
- Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find…
- It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was…
- Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect…
- If you will cling to Nature, to the simple in Nature, to the little things that hardly anyone sees, and that can so unexpectedly become…
- If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps…
- Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
- 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…
- Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
- Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
- Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are…
- Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything…
- Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.
- I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.
- the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it…
- To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks,…
- with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a…
- Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to…
- Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything…
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun