The point is to live everything.
Interpretation
Embrace all experiences in life to truly understand existence.
This quote by Rainer Maria Rilke emphasizes the importance of fully engaging with the entirety of life, regardless of whether experiences are good or bad. It suggests that each moment, every situation, contributes to our understanding of ourselves and the world, urging us to live deeply and passionately.
In practice
A motivational speaker might use this quote to encourage the audience to seize every opportunity.
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
Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.
Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
My life is one demd horrid grind.
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