Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum.

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

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

The only journey is the one within.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

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

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

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

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

What batters you becomes your strength.

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

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

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

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

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

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

Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.