Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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.

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.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

The only journey is the one within.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

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.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

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