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Quotes About Struggle

find enough patience in yourself to endure, and enough simplicity to believe; that you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult, and in particular your solitude. And for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is right, every time.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
To love is good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
So badly does one live, because one always comes incomplete into the present, inept and scatter-brained.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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 hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Please don't think that the person trying to comfort you is living untroubled among these simple, quiet words that sometimes do you good. His own life has plenty of trouble and sadness; it lags far behind his words. And yet, were that not true, he would never have been able to find them.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
They wished to flower, and flowering is being beautiful: but we wish to ripen, and that means being dark and taking pains.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Sex is difficult, true. But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
To love is also good, for love is hard. Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not think that the person who is trying to console you lives effortlessly among the simple, quiet words that sometimes make you feel better. His life is full of troubles and sadness and falls far short of them. But if it were any different he could never have found the words that he did.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Warum, wenn es angeht, also die Frist des Daseins hinzubringen, als Lorbeer, ein wenig dunkler als alles andere Grün, mit kleinen Wellen an jedem Blattrand (wie eines Windes Lächeln) –: warum dann Menschliches müssen – und, Schicksal vermeidend, sich sehnen nach Schicksal?. .
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Kad?n?n teslimiyeti, hudutsuz olmak gayesini güder : onun saadetidir bu. Ama kad?n?n aÅŸk?ndaki sonsuz ?st?rap hep ÅŸu olmuÅŸtur : kendisinden bu teslimiyeti azaltmas? istenir.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
que una cosa sigui difícil ha de ser per a nosaltres un motiu més per fer-la. estimar també és bo: perquè l'amor és difícil. Estimar de persona a persona: això és potser el més difícil que se'ns ha encomanat, el més extrem, l'última prova, el treball per al qual tot altre treball és només una preparació.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
~ Duino Elegies
Bana iyi görünen bu dünyaya hiç de al??m?? deÄŸilim. BaÅŸka bir dünyada ne iÅŸim var? HoÅŸland???m anlamlar aras?nda kalmay? çok isterdim ve eÄŸer bir ÅŸeyler deÄŸiÅŸecekse, ben en az?ndan, bize akraba bir dünyalar? olan ve ayn? ÅŸeylere sahip köpekler aras?nda yaÅŸamama izin verilsin isterim.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
for at bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I basically do not believe that it matters to be happy in the sense in which people expect to be happy. But I can so absolutely understand the kind of arduous happiness that consists in rousing forces through a determined effort, forces that then start to work upon one's self.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
But they are difficult things with which we have been charged; almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
And this more human form of love (which will be performed in infinitely gentle and considerate fashion, true and clear in its creating of bonds and dissolving of them) will resemble the one we are struggling and toiling to prepare the way for, the love that consists in two solitudes protecting, defining and welcoming one another.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Between hammers pounding, the heart exists, like the tongue between the teeth—which still, however, does the praising.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.
~ Rainer Marie Rilke
Menulislah yang membantuku mengatasi rasa marah yang membakar di hati kebanyakan rakyat Palestina.
~ Raja Shehadeh