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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Every angel is terrifying.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
    tags: angels, elegy, poetry
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    C.G. Jung
    “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: introspection, psychotherapist, secrets, self-awareness, visions
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    C.G. Jung
    “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
    tags: life-experience
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    C.G. Jung
    “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-awareness, self-discovery
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    C.G. Jung
    “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
    ― C.G. Jung
    tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-love
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    C.G. Jung
    “There's no coming to consciousness without pain.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”
    ― C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
    tags: dreams, mythology
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    C.G. Jung
    “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
    ― C.G. Jung
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    C.G. Jung
    “How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
    ― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul
    tags: darkness, inspiration, life, psychology, shadow, whole, wholeness, wisdom
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    C.G. Jung
    “Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
    ― Carl Gustav Jung
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: writing
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.
    Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.
    And without feet I can make my way to you,
    without a mouth I can swear your name.

    Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you
    with my heart as with a hand.
    Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
    And if you consume my brain with fire,
    I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: obsession, poetry
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “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, Duino Elegies
    tags: beauty, inspirational
    1064 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: rainer-maria-rilke
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
    ― Rilke Rainer Maria
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “You darkness, that I come from,
    I love you more than all the fires
    that fence in the world,
    for the fire makes
    a circle of light for everyone,
    and then no one outside learns of you.

    But the darkness pulls in everything:
    shapes and fires, animals and myself,
    how easily it gathers them! -
    powers and people -

    and it is possible a great energy
    is moving near me.

    I have faith in nights.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: poetry
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I love the dark hours of my being.
    My mind deepens into them.
    There I can find, as in old letters,
    the days of my life, already lived,
    and held like a legend, and understood.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
    tags: reflection, understanding
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
    tags: art, destiny, inspirational, on-writing
    229 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: fourth-elegy, pretentious
    155 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars
    that like swift horses through the heavens raced
    and suddenly leaped across the hurdles
    of our wishes -- do you recall? And we
    did make so many! For there were countless numbers
    of stars: each time we looked above we were
    astounded by the swiftness of their daring play,
    while in our hearts we felt safe and secure
    watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,
    knowing somehow we had survived their fall.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
    tags: falling-stars, rainer-maria-rilke
    110 likes

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “She followed slowly, taking a long time,
    As though there were some obstacles in the way;
    And yet: as though, once it was overcome,
    She would be beyond all walking, and would fly.”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude."

    (Letter to Mimi Romanelli, May 11, 1910)”
    ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke, a Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus
    tags: solitude
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177023 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46484 likes



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