The future must enter you long before it happens.
Interpretation
Anticipating the future can shape our present actions and thoughts.
This quote by Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that our perception of the future influences our current state of being. By allowing thoughts and feelings about what is to come into our lives ahead of time, we prepare ourselves emotionally and mentally to embrace the changes and opportunities that the future holds.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a motivational speech about personal growth and preparation.
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
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.
I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it
People are like, 'Be yourself, be yourself,' and I'm still trying to figure out who that is. I know I'm not perfect, but I know I have a lot of people that support me and love me, and I don't want to let anyone down, so I just try to be the best that I can be.
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.
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