Rainer Maria Rilke quotes - page 4

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. View quote
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This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly. View quote
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May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. View quote
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Think... of the world you carry within you. View quote
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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. View quote
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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. View quote
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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. View quote
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Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant... View quote
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People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. View quote
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For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity. View quote
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I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord. View quote
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Our heart always transcends us. View quote
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If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. View quote
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That's love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. View quote
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But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths. View quote
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Every angel is terrifying. View quote
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If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. View quote
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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. View quote
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You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer. View quote
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most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth. View quote
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And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. View quote
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Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces. View quote
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