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More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
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.