Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

The following are quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke:

Do continue to believe that with your feeling 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.

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task

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.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Live the questions.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.

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