aqla_bia's review against another edition
5.0
O Rilke que só foi bater um papo com um chegado dele e casualmente mudou a minha visão de mundo e vida.
>Apenas um destaque aqui para a carta em que ele fala sobre a tristeza, sinceramente a escrita ali é tão empática e é de uma destreza inigualável.
>Apenas um destaque aqui para a carta em que ele fala sobre a tristeza, sinceramente a escrita ali é tão empática e é de uma destreza inigualável.
thatrandombookworm's review against another edition
challenging
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
4.0
This book was very insightful and inspiring. At times it was a bit dry, however it was a lovely short book. This is a book for all the creative types in the world, especially young people.
aquariumbookshelf's review against another edition
5.0
I annotated the freak out of this book! It was just such a good readdd!!
100reads's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
5.0
Sublime ❤️
abi22's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
annemariewellswriter's review against another edition
5.0
It is remarkable after reading so few pages written over 100 years ago, I feel like a different person for having done so. I loved this so much that when I finished reading it, I immediately read it a second time, jotting down my favorite bits:
A piece of art is good if it is born of necessity. This, its source, is its criterion; there is no other.
You could greatly interfere with [your evolution] if you look outward and expect to obtain answers from the outside - answers which only your innermost feeling in your quietest hour can perhaps give you.
I would like to beg of you... to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language... At present, you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.
It is good to be lonely, for being alone is not easy. The fact that something is difficult must be one more reason to do it. To love is also good, for love is difficult.
You people - who are beginners in everything - cannot yet love; they do not know how to love. They must learn it. With their whole being, with all strengths enveloping their lonely, disquieted heart, they must learn to love - even while their heartbeat is quickening.
[Man} is easily... pulled down under the surface of life; he professes to love [the woman whom] he arrogantly and rashly underrates.
The simple humanity of woman, brought about through pain and abasement, shall then come to light when the convention of her ultra-feminism will have been stripped off, transforming her status in the world. The men, who today cannot yet feel it coming, shall be surprised and defeated by it.
One day... the girl and the woman shall exist with her name no longer contrasted to the masculine; it shall have a meaning in itself. It shall not bring to mind complement or limitation - only life and being: the feminine human being.
the something new within us, the thing that has joined us, has entered our heart... and we do not find out what it was... and yet we have been changed, as a house is changed when a guest has entered it.
Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous. Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.
Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you?
It is always my wish that you might find enough patience within yourself to endure... that you might gain more and more trust in whatever is difficult for you.
I can only wish that you trustingly and patiently allow that grand solitude to work in you... It will act as an anonymous influence, akin to how ancestral blood constantly moves and merges with our own and links with that of the individual, never to be unlinked.
A piece of art is good if it is born of necessity. This, its source, is its criterion; there is no other.
You could greatly interfere with [your evolution] if you look outward and expect to obtain answers from the outside - answers which only your innermost feeling in your quietest hour can perhaps give you.
I would like to beg of you... to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language... At present, you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.
It is good to be lonely, for being alone is not easy. The fact that something is difficult must be one more reason to do it. To love is also good, for love is difficult.
You people - who are beginners in everything - cannot yet love; they do not know how to love. They must learn it. With their whole being, with all strengths enveloping their lonely, disquieted heart, they must learn to love - even while their heartbeat is quickening.
[Man} is easily... pulled down under the surface of life; he professes to love [the woman whom] he arrogantly and rashly underrates.
The simple humanity of woman, brought about through pain and abasement, shall then come to light when the convention of her ultra-feminism will have been stripped off, transforming her status in the world. The men, who today cannot yet feel it coming, shall be surprised and defeated by it.
One day... the girl and the woman shall exist with her name no longer contrasted to the masculine; it shall have a meaning in itself. It shall not bring to mind complement or limitation - only life and being: the feminine human being.
the something new within us, the thing that has joined us, has entered our heart... and we do not find out what it was... and yet we have been changed, as a house is changed when a guest has entered it.
Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous. Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.
Why should you want to exclude any anxiety, any grief, any melancholy from your life, since you do not know what it is that these conditions are accomplishing in you?
It is always my wish that you might find enough patience within yourself to endure... that you might gain more and more trust in whatever is difficult for you.
I can only wish that you trustingly and patiently allow that grand solitude to work in you... It will act as an anonymous influence, akin to how ancestral blood constantly moves and merges with our own and links with that of the individual, never to be unlinked.
sarah1910's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
This was so beautiful, so many gorgeous quotes!
4/5 stars!
4/5 stars!