Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes
...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. 
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Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure. and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.
- Rainer Maria Rilke