Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. - Rainer Maria Rilke. View more images...

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. - Rainer Maria Rilke. View more images...

Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what. - Rainer Maria Rilke. View more images...

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things - Rainer Maria Rilke. View more images...

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. - Rainer Maria Rilke. View more images...