Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another. Rainer Maria Rilke two order fall Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. Rainer Maria Rilke conditions perspective sexually 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. Rainer Maria Rilke inspirational love life He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood. Rainer Maria Rilke eye reading blood 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. Rainer Maria Rilke confused ocean beach You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. Rainer Maria Rilke i-love-you-more darkness fire Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading! Rainer Maria Rilke reading book people And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life. Rainer Maria Rilke giving-up time life 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 waiting giving long Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke conquer endurance speak Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. Rainer Maria Rilke tasks earth There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread Rainer Maria Rilke pieces important rose If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner! Rainer Maria Rilke angel humble inspirational The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. Rainer Maria Rilke greatness inspirational life 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. Rainer Maria Rilke growth development feelings you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret Rainer Maria Rilke hoe inspirational life Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Rainer Maria Rilke knowing answers life And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything. Rainer Maria Rilke fire morning life 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 uplifting dream beautiful All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy. Rainer Maria Rilke holy mindfulness patience
