Rainer Maria Rilke quotes and words of wisdom

"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."
Found in the topic Acceptance.

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place."
Found in the topic Ordinary.

"At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn"t as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
Found in the topic Love.

"Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words."
Found in the topic Comfort.

Interesting Quotes

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.Harry Emerson Fosdick - US clergyman (1878 - 1969)

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous Huxley - English critic & novelist (1894 - 1963)