Rainer Maria Rilke Famous Quotes
"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess."
"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky."
"Do continue to believe that with your feeling 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."
"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into your answers."
"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."
Live the questions.
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches."
"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words."
"For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task"
Rainer Maria Rilke Quotations
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read."
Mark Twain
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
Jeseph Joubert
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.
Henry Brougham
"Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting."
William Shakespeare
Genius is of no country.
Charles Churchill
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo
"While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple."
Gerald W Grummet