Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good.
Rainer Maria RilkePerhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Rainer Maria RilkeThis is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us.
Rainer Maria RilkePerhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke