More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."
"She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration."
"Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other."
"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."
"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."