Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke insperationalmarriagelove Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world. Rainer Maria Rilke lawpeoplemoving Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life Rainer Maria Rilke spacebelieveart Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words. Rainer Maria Rilke emosadnessfriendship It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be. Rainer Maria Rilke knowinghandsway If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. Rainer Maria Rilke simplicitynatureinspiring The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke futureorderlong I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. Rainer Maria Rilke being-alonesolitudeloneliness 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. Rainer Maria Rilke painsolitudetrying Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good. Rainer Maria Rilke hours I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false. Rainer Maria Rilke selfwant 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. Rainer Maria Rilke teachbirdfall Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final Rainer Maria Rilke flare-upcompassioninspirational And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been Rainer Maria Rilke new-beginningsnew-yearnature 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. Rainer Maria Rilke gonewayart Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke egosolitudepatience 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. Rainer Maria Rilke heartinspirationallife 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 broken-heartpracticeletting-go 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. Rainer Maria Rilke inspiringlovelife Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Rainer Maria Rilke lostfriendlyhands
