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
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Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.
I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.
If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.
The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
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