Tag: Rainer Maria Rilke

“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

“Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

“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.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

“There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke