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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
If I could give one book recommendation to every single person on the planet it would be this book.
I think that says enough
I think that says enough
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
these letters were so beautiful i'd sell my soul to the devil to receive a letter from rilke
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
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“… not afraid that afterward summer may not come. it does come. but only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them. i learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain i am grateful for.”
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These letters felt like a warm hug and I keep rereading passages to remind myself of the beautifully worded advice and thoughts Rilke shared with Kappus. I wanted to share my favourite quotes but I genuinely can't pick and, since it's such a small book, just read the whole thing! Rilke was such a brilliant mind
Excellent!!! Read this for book club! Sad to say I probably wouldn’t have picked this up on my own but I loved it. I wish I had read this when I was 16. Very insightful reflections on joy and suffering and growing up!
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
I enjoyed reading this, and I feel it is something I'll come back and read snippets from a lot.