Rainer Maria Rilke Needs Quotations

Sex is difficult, yes. But they are difficult things with which we have been charged...If you only recognize this and manage out of yourself, out of your own nature and ways, out of your own experience and childhood and strength to achieve a relation to sex wholly your own (not influenced by convention and custom) then you need no longer be afraid of losing yourself and becoming unworthy of your best possession.

To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.