Rainer Maria Rilke Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Rainer Maria Rilke
Our deepest fears are like dragons
guarding our deepest treasure.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Our Sayings
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every thought we think is creating our future.
- Louise Hay
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
When the vast cathedral of our being
becomes a sanctuary for all creation,
we become the face of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing
that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Through our own recovered innocence
we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are renewable no matter what our age.
- Dale Turner
As we light a path for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
Our daily decisions create the scrapbook of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.
- Albert Einstein
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking
becomes clear - nothing is missing.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron
Choice impacts virtually every element of our life.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous
Our compassion and acts of selflessness
take us to the deeper truths.
- Amma
Our world is magnificent - all of it.
Rejoice and give thanks.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
When we do the best that we can,
we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
The path to love ... is our spiritual destiny.
- Deepak Chopra
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
We censor our actions, but
our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Adversity can crush our spirit -
or strengthen it - it is our choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whether we allow external events to
shape our lives at a core level
is very much within our own control.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
We can change our lives.
We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
This is our moment, this is our time.
- Bono
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
We all have our thorns - and blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
- Henry David Thoreau
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Once we doubt ourselves, success slips beyond our grasp.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children
One is roots, the other is wings.
- Hodding Carter
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds
with a gentle and tender hand.
- Henri Nouwen
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