Five Quotes from Rainer Rilke

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.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

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.

I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.