Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

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

The only journey is the one within.

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

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

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.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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.

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.

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

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

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

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.