And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
Interpretation
The quote expresses the excitement and potential that comes with a new year filled with new experiences.
Rainer Maria Rilke's quote reflects the anticipation and hope that accompanies the arrival of a new year. It emphasizes the idea that each new year brings with it opportunities for growth, discovery, and the chance to experience things that we have not yet encountered. This sentiment encourages us to embrace the unknown and to look forward to the possibilities the future holds.
In practice
During a New Year's Eve celebration, this quote could be shared to inspire hope and excitement for the upcoming year.
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.
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.
Because itβs no longer enough to be a decent person. Itβs no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
Denying the rights of women and girls is not only wrong in itself; it has a serious social and economic impact that holds us all back.
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.
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