Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.
Interpretation
Practice patience with unresolved feelings, as understanding may take time to surface.
This quote emphasizes the importance of patience in dealing with emotional uncertainties and unresolved issues within ourselves. Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that we should not rush to find answers or solutions immediately, as some truths and insights may only become clear with time and introspection. It encourages a gentle acceptance of the unknown and the belief that clarity will eventually come.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-discovery, one might say this quote to encourage the audience to embrace uncertainty.
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
Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.
So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
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