We need in love to practice only this:
Letting each other go. For holding on
Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Wir haben, wo wir lieben, ja nur dies:
Einander lassen; denn dass wir uns halten,
Das fallt uns leicht und ist nicht erst zu lernen.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Relationships Letting go

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Czech Republic Europe

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Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Requiem fur eine Freundin [Requiem for a Friend]. c. 1908.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Requiem for a Friend." The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Vintage, 1989.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
1903 1900s 20th century
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Citation

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Another quote about Relationships

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Topic
Nature of love Love Relationships

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Source
Wind, Sand and Stars
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
French
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Terre des hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars]. Gallimard, 1939.

Another quote originally in German

I am much occupied with the investigation of physical causes. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock.

Johannes Kepler

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Topic
The laws of physics The universe

Author

Johannes Kepler
Medium
Letter
Language
German
Time
1605 1600s 17th century
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Citation

Kepler, Johannes. Letter to Herwart von Hohenbury. 10 Feb. 1605.

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Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Topic
Eternity Time

Author

Marcus Aurelius
Source
Meditations
Medium
Personal journal
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Paradox
Language
Greek
Time
180 180s 2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 6.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 6.