Rainer Maria Rilke

"Right in the difficult, we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Fate measures us perhaps with the breadth of being, Which is strange to us; Just think how much distance there is between a girl and a man When she is avoiding him or thinking of him."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"The only journey is the journey within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"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."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been"

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”"

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"And now we welcome the new year—Full of things that have never been."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees."

- Rainer Maria Rilke