I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a desire to appreciate and cherish things in a unique and profound way.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote reflects a deep yearning to experience love in an extraordinary manner, encouraging individuals to seek out beauty and value in all things, even those that may go unnoticed. This sentiment emphasizes the importance of a personal and innovative approach to love, suggesting that true affection can be transformative when directed at the world around us with originality and depth.
In practice
During a speech on creativity, one might quote this to inspire others to embrace their unique perspectives.
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
[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.
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