Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.”

“One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.”

“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.”

“He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.”

“The only journey is the one within.”

“There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.”

“And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

“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.”

“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”

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