“...perhaps we should then bear our sadness with greater assurance than our joys. For they are the moments when something new enters into us, something unknown to us...”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“To love is also good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, do not…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“People have tended (with the help of conventions) to resolve everything in the direction of easiness, of the light, and on the lightest side of the light, but it is clear that we must hold to the heavy, the difficult.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...He perhaps requires of you precisely this existential anxiety in order to begin. Precisely these days of transition are perhaps the period when everything in you is working on him, just as before, as a child you worked on him with bated breath. Be patient and even-tempered and remember that the l…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Don't you see how everything that happens is always a beginning again, and could be it not be His beginning, given that beginnings are in themselves always so beautiful?”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love, this is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“There is only one solitude, and that is vast and not easy to bear and almost everyone has moments when they would happily exchange it for some form of company...”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best as I can...to be patient towards all that is unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they can…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“If you hold close to nature, to what is simple in it, to the small things people hardly see and which all of a sudden can become great and immeasurable; if you have this love for what is slight, and quite unassumingly, as a servant, seek to win the confidence of what seems poor - then everything wil…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“These things cannot be measured by time, a year has no meaning, and ten years are nothing. To be an artist means: not to calculate and count; to grow and ripen like a tree which does not hurry the flow of its sap and stands at ease in the spring gales without fearing that no summer may follow. It wi…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...progress must come from deep within and cannot be forced or accelerated.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...no experience is too slight, and the merest occurrence unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, vast fabric in which every thread is drawn by an infinitely tender hand and laid next to another, held in place and supported by hundred others.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“In the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise, let alone help another, a great deal must come about, a great deal must come right, a whole constellation of things must concur for it to be possible at all.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.”— Steve Biko, amazon.com
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.”— Steve Biko, en.wikiquote.org
“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”— Steve Biko, en.wikiquote.org
“The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.”— Yasmin Mogahed, twitter.com
“Your heart’s broken but your whole body hurts. Then you get into bed at night, thankful to be back in a safe haven under the covers where you can cry alone and not be judged for being so weak to another human being, when all of our lives we are taught to be independent. And after a silent moment in…”— Kate Dillen, thoughtcatalog.com
“I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.”— Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler, amazon.com