Be Courageoous

“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

The World Within

“Think... of the world you carry within you.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke

My Birthday Mantra

*(Shhh don't tell my kids I'm turning "29" again this year!)

 Putting on all my birthday crowns today and making a wish.  

“you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret” -Rainer Maria Rilke


* "Age is just a number and mine is unlisted!"
-anonymous

Always the Wish

“It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that you may acquire more and more confidence in that which is difficult, and in your solitude among others. And for the rest, let life happen to you.
 Believe me: life is right, in any case.”- Rainer Maria Rilke  

In Due Time

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

An Inheritance

Love by Claire Wise

“.... believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

The Benefit of Solitude

"Waterlilies" Monet

“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you,

even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances,

and from it you will find all your paths.” Rainer Maria Rilke