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.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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

More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

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

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

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

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.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.