"For one human being to love another:
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof, the
work for which all other work is but preparation."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"If your daily life seems poor,
do not blame it; blame yourself,
tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches;
for to the creator there is no poverty
and no poor indifferent place."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"Live your questions now, and perhaps
even without knowing it, you will live
along some distant day into your answers."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"Once the realization is accepted that
even between the closest human beings
infinite distances continue to exist,
a wonderful living side by side can grow up,
if they succeed in loving the distance between
them which makes it possible for each to see
each other whole against the sky."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"At the bottom no one in life can help
anyone else in life; this one experiences
over and over in every conflict and every
perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't
as bad as it may first appear; and again it
is the best thing in life that each should
have everything in himself; his fate,
his future, his whole expanse and world."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

"Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort
you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life
may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she
would never have been able to find these words."
-Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens
every time to those who really love;
the more they give, the more they possess.
-Rainer Maria Rilke