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Letter "R" » Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
«Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
«Believe that with your feelings 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.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| About:
Belief,
Doing Your Best
| Keywords:
cultivate, forth, go forth, strongly
«I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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or else
«Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.»
«This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.»
«Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.»
«For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
for one, preparation, proof, tasks, test, The Ultimate, ultimate
«Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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«Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.»
«I feel it now...there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it.»
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