Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything conspires to keep quiet about us, half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.
Rainer Maria RilkeWinning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.
Rainer Maria Rilke