Rilke Beauty Quotes

#1. The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

Lucan

#2. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#3. Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#5. Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. Work hard or don't work at all.

Walter Payton

#7. Coffee is one of life's little miracles. It gives you energy when you're tired, warms you when you're cold, and gives you something to hide behind when life keeps throwing shit your way.

Jay Bell

#8. I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#9. The truth begins where trust ends.

Ivan Yelkin

#10. 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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#11. The strong man lit a cigarette. It looked too frail for his hand. They looked like King Kong and Fay Wray, that hand, that cigarette. There was a movie going on right under his nose and he didn't even know. The guy had about one brain cell and he was doing time in it.

Rupert Thomson

#12. Perhaps 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 Rilke

#13. I know, that Rilke quote - "Beauty is the beginning of terror" - I think about that a lot. It's that realization that we are so small, and yet we are so large in our capacity to relate to the beauty of things.

Terry Tempest Williams

#14. Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#15. But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#16. A woman did not feel jealousy if her emotions were not engaged. And a wise man did not let it fester.

C.L. Wilson

#17. When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

Paulo Coelho

#18. Sachin has been an integral part of Mumbai Indians and a source of inspiration for the team ever since the inception.

Nita Ambani

#19. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.

Rainer Maria Rilke