"I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people that each should stand..." - Rainer Maria Rilke

🌙 Solitude

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other”

The greatest gift in relationship is protecting each others solitude.

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The only journey is the one within.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke