There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that while a marriage can be good in a moral or fundamental sense, it often lacks the aspects that make it enjoyable or pleasant.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote reflects the complexity of marital relationships, implying that the inherent goodness of a partnership does not guarantee happiness or satisfaction. This perspective highlights the often challenging and sometimes uncomfortable realities of living closely with another person, suggesting that marriages, while potentially fulfilling, are rarely devoid of struggles and difficulties.
In practice
In a wedding speech, one might quote this to reflect on the realities of marriage.
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
Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.
Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who appeal to your sense of connection to intention, who see the greatness in you, who feel connected to God, who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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