And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow,
to the rushing water,
speak: I am.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
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“let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. just keep going, no feeling is final.”
rainer maria rilke
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Rainer Maria Rilke, from Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose; "An Experience,"
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— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “I am praying again, Awesome One.”
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"to endure!"
vincent van gogh ("trees and undergrowth")
robert lowell [How will the heart endure?]
vincent van gogh [I must endure bad times and the waters will rise, possibly as high as the lips and possibly even higher, how can I know beforehand? But I’ll fight my fight and sell my life dearly and try to win and pull through.]
rainer maria rilke [To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.]
joan didion [Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it.]
elena ferrante [maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.]
elena ferrante [I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.]
han kang [The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure.]
victor frankl [What is to give light must endure burning.]
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― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
[text id : “To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge]
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Let everything happen to you: Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Go to the Limits of Your Longing
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You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~
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Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Selected Poems; "Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes,"
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You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secrets.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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