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Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

«The only journey is the one within.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: journey
«...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.»
«The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: enters, transform
«Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | About: Love | Keywords: greet, greeted, greets, protect, touch
«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.»
«God...sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | About: God | Keywords: finished, lacking, Sat, The Dog
«The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: defeated
«Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | Keywords: poems, returned, spring
«At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.»
«It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke | About: Solitude | Keywords: solitary, solitude

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