Rainer Maria Rilke

"As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build Him. Even with the trivial, with the insignificant we begin, with work and with the repose that comes afterward, with a…"

"Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over and uniting with another , it is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become world, to become world for himself for another's …"

"Young people -it is obvious -cannot achieve such a relationship, but they can, if they understand their life properly, grow up slowly to such happiness and prepare themselves for it. They must not for…"

"Irony: Do not let yourself be governed by it, especially not in unproductive moments. In productive ones try to make use of it as one more means of seizing life."

"Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their…"

"The demands which the difficult work of love makes upon our development are more than life-size, and as beginners we are not up to them. But if we nevertheless hold out and take this love upon us as b…"

"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 li…"

"To love is good, too: love being difficult. 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 othe…"