Wishes are recollections coming from the future. Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke More Quotes From Rainer Maria Rilke And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true. Rainer Maria Rilke flowerspiritualanimal There is only one journey. Going inside yourself. Rainer Maria Rilke militaryjourneyhealing To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure. Rainer Maria Rilke lightlovemean Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. Rainer Maria Rilke betrayalheartbreakchildren God speaks to each of us as he makes us, Rainer Maria Rilke walksspeaknight Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. Rainer Maria Rilke earth-dayspringchildren You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing Rainer Maria Rilke breathingairgiving The point is to live everything. Rainer Maria Rilke Space for the Spirit to breathe. Rainer Maria Rilke breathespacespirit I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song. Rainer Maria Rilke stormsongyears Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow. Rainer Maria Rilke childhoodgreatnessdoe Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting traps for freedom. Rainer Maria Rilke eyeanimalworld Earth, my dearest, oh believe me, you no longer need your springtimes to win me over...Unspeakably, I have belonged to you, from the flush. Rainer Maria Rilke winningbelieveneeds But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves. Rainer Maria Rilke solitudelife-islong It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance. Rainer Maria Rilke costidentitystruggle The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. Rainer Maria Rilke fatesadnesspatient Beauty is only the start of bearable terror. Rainer Maria Rilke bearableterror What batters you becomes your strength. Rainer Maria Rilke rushing-water 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. Rainer Maria Rilke distancetwilightpeople [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. Rainer Maria Rilke ableimportantorder
