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Thinker · 5 quotes
5 sourced quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke on mind & self-awareness, women & gender, resilience & perseverance, happiness & meaning of life, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.
If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth.
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.