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• 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

  Love, Life, Inspiring

  John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Dream

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Wish, Idealism, Recollection

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• There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Rose, Important, Pieces

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• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Marriage, Insperational

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.297, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Devil, May

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• I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Real, Believe, Passing Away

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.145, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Believe, Let Me

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Reading, Eye, Blood

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• Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Learning, Silence, I've Learned

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Greatness

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• Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Love, Patience, Heart

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Ernest Flemming (1986). “Rainer Maria Rilke: Selected Poems”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Life is heavier than the weight of all things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Weight, Life Is, All Things

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.63, North Point Press

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• Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Misled, Surface

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.38, New World Library

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• It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Hands, Knowing, Way

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). “Letters on Life: New Prose Translations”, p.50, Modern Library

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• This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Faces, Kind, Unusual

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Honey, Bees, Construction

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Endurance, Speak, Conquer

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Letter to Emanuel von Bodman, 17 Aug. 1901

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• If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Nature, Tree, Earth

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Stars, Reading

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• I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Self, Want

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• and I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Song, Years, Circles

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• And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Year, Nature, New Beginnings

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