Land Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke Download Open image “You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.” — Rainer Maria Rilke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Land Life Seriousness
“Seriousness closes your mind to the openness and freedom of life Seriousness closes your mind to the openness and freedom of life. It makes… — Pearls of Wisdom Copy Share Image
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker, a philosopher.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood. Then the knowing comes: I can open to another life that’s wide and timeless. So I am sometimes like a tree rustling over a gravesite… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which robs either one member or both of his fullest freedom and development. But, once the realization is accepted that, even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment ... And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society and make a commentary. They're not in a la la land. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would… — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
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