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More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
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.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.
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.
And I circle ten thousand years long; And I still don't know if I'm a falcon, a storm, or an unfinished song
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.
