To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Rainer Maria Rilke sadnessemotionmoments Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure. Rainer Maria Rilke dragonshippiefear Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you. Rainer Maria Rilke changelookspast Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. Rainer Maria Rilke godrootsdark Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings. Rainer Maria Rilke voicetogethertwo Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum. Rainer Maria Rilke catadd I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is. Rainer Maria Rilke appreciationbeautifullove Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself. Rainer Maria Rilke preparationrealanswers Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance. Rainer Maria Rilke remembrancecreatingprofound Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. Rainer Maria Rilke let-melifebelieve The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke journeybeautifullife I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation. Rainer Maria Rilke opportunitytwolying Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. Rainer Maria Rilke heartpatiencelove Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life. Rainer Maria Rilke artisthumilitydark This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us. Rainer Maria Rilke unusualkindfaces I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. Rainer Maria Rilke marriagerelationshipfriendship only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being. Rainer Maria Rilke alivesoundrelationship Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Rainer Maria Rilke trustgrowthfeelings What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child. Rainer Maria Rilke ablesolitudechildren You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Rainer Maria Rilke futurewaitinggiving
