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. – Rainer Maria Rilke
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. – Rainer Maria Rilke
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. – 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. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. – Rainer Maria Rilke
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. – Rainer Maria Rilke
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. – Rainer Maria Rilke
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog. – Rainer Maria Rilke
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. – Rainer Maria Rilke
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. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. – Rainer Maria Rilke
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. – Rainer Maria Rilke
