Ancient Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

“Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it. —RAINER MARIA…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“A solemn sadness reigns. A great peace is around us. In its light our cares of the working day grow small and trivial, and…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“When evening has come, I return to my house and go into my study. At the door I take off my clothes of the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them. But each…

— Marcel Proust

“The outward manifestation of greatness is that we excite devotion and love in our work.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“The lesson which life constantly repeats is to 'look under your feet.' You are always nearer to the divine and the true sources of…

— John Burroughs

“Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips and traces by the help…

— Jerome K Jerome

“Therefore the Way that is sagely within and kingly without has fallen into darkness and is no longer clearly perceived, has become shrouded and…

— Zhuangzi

“Little did I realize that from that day onwards I was never to be my old normal self again, that I had unwittingly and…

— Gopi Krishna