Rainer Maria Rilke
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.Collection: New
The only journey is the one within.Collection: Inspirational
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.Collection: Time
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.Collection: Great
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.Collection: Experience
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.Collection: Love
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.Collection: Future
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.Collection: Experience
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.Collection: Nature
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.Collection: Great
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.Collection: Poetry
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.Collection: Fear
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.Collection: Marriage
A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.Collection: Relationship
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.Collection: Love
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.Collection: Life
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.Collection: Alone
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Love
I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.Collection: Love
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.Collection: Healing
Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.Collection: Distance
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.Collection: Love
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.Collection: Important
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.Collection: Love
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.Collection: Beach
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.Collection: Country
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.Collection: Inspiring
There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of breadCollection: Rose
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.Collection: Inspirational
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never beenCollection: New Year