Rainer Maria Rilke

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

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

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.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

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.

There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

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.

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