Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

The only journey is the one within.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

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

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.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

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.

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

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

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

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.

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

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

Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.