Posts tagged "rainer maria rilke"

Live the questions~
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue...

We must assume our existence as broadly as we can~
"We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard-of, must be possible in it. That is at the bottom the only courage that is demanded of us...

Sadness signals something new arising~
"Perhaps we would endure our sadnesses with greater confidence than our joys. For they are moments when something new has entered into us, something unknown...