"What we do battle with is so small,……" — Rainer Maria Rilke
"What we do battle with is so small, what battles us is so large..."
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434 Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke has 434 quotes on this site.
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There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he…
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The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and…
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Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.
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Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit…
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When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its…
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I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.
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Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you…
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart...
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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
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Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood.
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Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
— James A. Baldwin
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
— Gerry Adams
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
— Drew Barrymore
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
— Scott Adams
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
— Buffalo Bill
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
— Tony Blair
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
— Erma Bombeck
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