So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.
Interpretation
The quote reassures that sadness and anxiety are part of the human experience and suggests that they hold deeper significance.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote emphasizes that facing profound sadness or anxiety is a natural part of life that should not evoke fear. Instead, it encourages an understanding that such feelings indicate active engagement in life's journey, reminding us that we are cared for and supported by the greater forces of existence, thus suggesting a sense of hope and resilience in the face of challenges.
In practice
This quote can inspire someone going through a tough time at a support group meeting.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
Every black man in Chicago walks through the world differently, and I think what young black boys do is observe, and that's what gives them their road map.
And I put the latte down on a table, awash in the happy middle of my greatest adventure.
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
Like roots finding water, we always wind up moving towards what sustains us.
I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
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