Quotes from Letters to a Young Poet
To love is good, too; love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Patience is everything when it comes to the growth of the soul. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. – Wayne W. Dyer
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. – Rainer Maria Rilke
You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. – Rainer Maria Rilke
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. – Buckminster Fuller
Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe… most happenings are beyond expression. – Frida Kahlo
Seek those who fan your flames. – Rumi
You are the result of the love of thousands. – Rumi
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. – Rumi
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. – Rumi
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi
Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. – C. JoyBell C.
You aren’t a coward for taking time to heal. Healing is brave. – Marisa Donnelly
The richest person in the world is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least. – Unknown
If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself. – Becca Lee
You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs. – Caroline Myss
Every day may not be good… but there’s something good in every day. – Alice Morse Earle
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’ – C.S. Lewis
Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. – Sam Levenson
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill
Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places. – Unknown
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. – Wayne Gretzky
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs
The best revenge is massive success. – Frank Sinatra
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do. – James M. Barrie
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde
There are two ways to be happy: change the situation, or change your mindset towards it. – Unknown
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. – Vince Lombardi
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. – Matt Cameron
Big things come from small beginnings. – Unknown
The best way to predict the future is to create it. – Abraham Lincoln
The only limits in life are the ones you make. – Unknown
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Charles R. Swindoll
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Life is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu
Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution. – Albert Einstein
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. – Christian D. Larson
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. – Buddha
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. – Zig Ziglar
Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart. – Roy T. Bennett