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• Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Friendship, Emo, Sadness

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• You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.

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  I Love You More, Fire, Darkness

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

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  Fall, Bird, Teach

  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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• Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

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  Healing, Thinking, Self

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

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• A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.

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  Stars, Night, Spinning

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Buddha In Glory”

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• I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Friendship, Relationship, Marriage

  Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker, 12 Feb. 1902, in Gesammelte Briefe (Collected Letters, 1904) vol. 1, p. 204

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• The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

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  Future, Order, Long

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• I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.

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  Song, Years, Storm

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything.

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  Heart, Inner Peace, Relaxation

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life

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  Art, Believe, Space

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

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• Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?

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  Impermanence, Fragrance

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• To be here is immense.

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  Generosity, Immense

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• Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.

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  Moving, Law, People

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• I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

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  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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

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• What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

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  Children, Solitude, Able

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 6, 1929.

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• I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.

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  Beautiful, Worry, Anxiety

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

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• As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

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  Moving, Future, Space

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• Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters.

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  Challenges, Matter

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• What batters you becomes your strength.

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  Rushing Water

  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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• Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

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  Pain, Solitude, Trying

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, New World Library

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• Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being.

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  Tasks, Earth

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  To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.

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  Love, Mean, Light

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

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  Relationship, Sad Love, Family Love

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• Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness.

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  Joy, Marvelous, Pure

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.240, Vintage

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• You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

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  Long, Giving, Waiting

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