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
My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
Iβve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just donβt want that in my life.
Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.
It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing.
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