"I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false..."

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Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

Rainer Maria Rilke

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“Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.”
“Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)”
“I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising.”
“From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.”
“What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.”
“But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.”
“I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher.”

Source : "Fitness Tips From Professional Dancers" By Tiffany Tse, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.
“That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.”

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