And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Interpretation
The quote expresses the excitement and potential that comes with a new year filled with new experiences.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote reflects the anticipation and hope that accompanies the arrival of a new year. It emphasizes the idea that each new year brings with it opportunities for growth, discovery, and the chance to experience things that we have not yet encountered. This sentiment encourages us to embrace the unknown and to look forward to the possibilities the future holds.
In practice
During a New Year's Eve celebration, this quote could be shared to inspire hope and excitement for the upcoming year.
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.
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.
If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.
You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
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