Rainer Maria Rilke

"A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship."

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."

"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."

"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."

"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."