Rainer Maria Rilke
“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ hierarchies?”
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.”
“Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and nothing can reach them so little as criticism.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
“And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
“You must change your life.”
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that protect and touch and greet each other.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”
“Live the questions now.”
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”