Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and love the questions themselves like locked rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. You will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.

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

"The only journey is the one within."

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

When you go to bed, don't leave bread or milk
on the table: it attracts the dead.

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; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

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

Is he native to this realm? No,
his wide nature grew out of both worlds.

Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

True singing is a different breath, about nothing.

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

I beg you... Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. Live the questions now. Then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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.