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More Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.
The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.
If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.
A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.
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.
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.
Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.
There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
