I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.
Interpretation
Embracing dark times allows for deeper self-reflection and understanding of one's past.
This quote by Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that the darker moments in life serve as opportunities for profound introspection. During these 'dark hours,' one's mind can delve deeper into personal experiences, drawing connections to past events that are cherished like old letters, ultimately leading to greater wisdom and understanding of oneself and one's journey.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage people to embrace challenging times as opportunities for growth.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine
We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.
Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.
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