1.24.2010

have patience

Have patience with everything
unresolved in your heart and try to
love the questions themselves, as if they
were locked rooms, or books
written in a very foreign language.
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you
now, because you would not be
able to live them. And the point
is to live everything. Live the
questions now. Perhaps then, someday
far in the future, you will gradually,
without even noticing it, live
your way into the answer.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

So pretty and so true. :)

Diana_CT said...

How true, I know...

Mrs. Chili said...

I've posted this before; it's one of my all time favorites.

The Gal Herself said...

What a terrific quote! It is especially relevant to me right now. Thank you so much for posting it.

Mimi Lenox said...

Brilliant words.