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Rainer Maria Rilke quotes with context

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 to 1926) was born in Prague and is one of the best-known poets of the German language. Besides the “Duino Elegies” and the “Sonnets to Orpheus”, many people still read his “Letters to a Young Poet”. That is where he advises to love the questions themselves.

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  1. You don't need answers to all questions, just peace with the questions themselves.

    Mindfulness

    From the explanation

    Peace with unanswered questions describes a calm way of relating to uncertainty. Many situations in life become clear only gradually. A decision needs more information, a relationship changes, or the next step in a career remains unclear for a while. Mindfulness helps us experience this in-between time consciously, without immediately filling every gap with an answer.

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20 quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

Stoicism 1

  1. Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

Mindfulness 4

  1. Life doesn't ask us to understand it, only to live it.

  2. The greatest journey is the one inward.

  3. Learn to be with yourself; everything else follows.

  4. Live with questions rather than answers.

Gratitude 14

  1. What you see today carries your image tomorrow.

  2. The face of a person you love changes every day. Look closely.

  3. What we see as an end was for others a beginning.

  4. Life writes its most beautiful stories in the silence.

  5. The hands that hold you will not be able to do so forever.

  6. The heart beats without being asked, and doesn't ask if it is heard.

  7. The laughter of a person you love is a sound you should imprint in your memory.

  8. The silence between two people who understand each other says more than a thousand words.

  9. It is often the quiet things that speak loudest when they are gone.

  10. What you love is the only thing that is truly yours.

  11. In every face lies a story you will never hear completely.

  12. Life writes its most beautiful pages in the small things.

  13. The sound of the sea is the same for everyone, and different for everyone.

  14. What you love is real in this moment. Everything else is abstraction.

About Rainer Maria Rilke

From “About Rainer Maria Rilke”

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875, then part of Austria-Hungary and shaped by German, Czech, and Jewish cultures. His father Josef had pursued a military career and worked as a railway official; his mother Sophie came from a wealthy Prague family.

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