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

Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest;...

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest;...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...

A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in...

A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in...

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is...

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is...

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

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

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation...

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that...

Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies? and even if...

Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies? and even if...

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must...

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must...

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest...

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest...

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of...

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of...

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that...

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that...

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure...

All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure...

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our...

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our...

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

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

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them -...

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them -...

But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now...

But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now...

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and...

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and...

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in...

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in...