1. “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
2. “Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
3. “Beauty is but the beginning of terror. We can barely endure it and are awed when it declines to destroy us.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
4. “Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
5. “Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
6. “Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
7. “Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
8. “Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling… it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
9. “One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
10. “The main thing was to be living. That was the main thing.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
11. “He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
12. “I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
13. “The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
14. “I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
15. “What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
16. “Space for the Spirit to breathe.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
17. “There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
18. “Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
19. “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
20. “Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
21. “Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
22. “Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
23. “Now for some heartwork.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
24. “But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
25. “You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
26. “Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
27. “A good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
28. “In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
29. “This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
30. “Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
31. “To be silent, to keep myself absolutely hidden, nothing else.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
32. “The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
33. “As if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
34. “Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
35. “The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one – this one must be able to attain.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
36. “The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
37. “I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
38. “It is nothing but a breath, the void.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
39. “Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
40. “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
41. “Where I create, there I am true.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
42. “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
43. “It should either have passed away with my childhood, or my childhood should have flowed away from it later, leaving it behind, real among all the rest of reality, something to see and objectively tell, like a thing in Cezanne, incomprehensible for all I care, but tangible.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
44. “One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!”- Rainer Maria Rilke
45. “Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can’t take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
46. “Life is heavier than the weight of all things.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
47. “The future stands firm… but we move in infinite space.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
48. “One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn’t want to rob them of their candor and innocence.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
49. “Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
50. “But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
51. “I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
52. “Every angel is terrifying.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
53. “We ignore the gods and fill our minds with trash.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
54. “We have no reason to be mistrustful of our world, for it is not against us.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
55. “Sometime we will have to stop overevaluating the word. We shall learn to realize that it is only one of the many bridges that connect the island of our soul with the great continent of common life. . . the broadest, perhaps, but in no way the most refined.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
56. “Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
57. “Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
58. “Above all marriage is a new task and a new seriousness – a new challenge and a question regarding the strength and kindness of each participant and a new great danger for both.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
59. “Just keep going – no feeling is final.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
60. “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
61. “Wishes are memories coming from our future!”- Rainer Maria Rilke
62. “You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
63. “Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
64. “Because I never held you close, I hold you forever.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
65. “It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one’s hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
66. “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
67. “Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
68. “Thus we live, forever taking leave.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
69. “Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
70. “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
71. “And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
72. “Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see that it now longs to move on from them and is drawn to those who are greater yet. That is why it does not cease to be difficult, but also why it will not cease to grow.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
73. “Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
74. “I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
75. “Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!”- Rainer Maria Rilke
76. “Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final”- Rainer Maria Rilke
77. “My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
78. “Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer”- Rainer Maria Rilke
79. “Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me against his heart, I should fade in the strength of his stronger existence. For beauty’s nothing but the beginning of terror we’re still just able to bear.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
80. “Everything terrible is something that needs our love.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
81. “Whoever makes himself freer and more human in his own existence is doing his part towards peace.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
82. “Art too is just a way of living.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
83. “most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
84. “In the depths all becomes law.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
85. “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
86. “Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
87. “Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
88. “Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
89. “No one can advise and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
90. “Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
91. “Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
92. “I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
93. “But this press of time – take it as a little thing next to what endures. All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
94. “In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you see Eden? And I’ll reply: Eden burns.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
95. “Do not, do not, do not books for ever hammer at people like perpetual bells? When, between two books, silent sky appears: be glad.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
96. “We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
97. “Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
98. “Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
99. “Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one’s sleep under so many lids.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
100. “The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
101. “There is only one journey. Going inside yourself.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
102. “We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
103. “A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
104. “The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
105. “Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart…do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
106. “I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”- Rainer Maria Rilke
107. “Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things”- Rainer Maria Rilke
108. “Life is cut to allow for growth … one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
109. “Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
110. “Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
111. “the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
112. “Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
113. “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
114. “Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand already quite near its transformation.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
115. “Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”- Rainer Maria Rilke
116. “You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
117. “I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
118. “Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you?”- Rainer Maria Rilke
119. “Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
120. “Do not search now for the answers which cannot be given you because you could not live them. It is a matter of living everything. Live the questions now.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
121. “The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
122. “Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
123. “Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?”- Rainer Maria Rilke
124. “Don’t take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
125. “Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
126. “The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
127. “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
128. “All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
129. “Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
130. “It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
131. “Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
132. “Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
133. “Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
134. “Our own heart always exceeds us.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
135. “No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.” – Rainer Maria Rilke