"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