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Rainer Maria Rilke
“God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.

These are the words we dimly hear:

You, sent out beyond your recall,
go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.

Flare up like a flame
and make big shadows I can move in.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Don't let yourself lose me.

Nearby is the country they call life.
You will know it by its seriousness.

Give me your hand.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Isaac Asimov
“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”
Isaac Asimov

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Want the change. Be inspired by the flame
where everything shines as it disappears.
The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so much
as the curve of the body as it turns away.

What locks itself in sameness has congealed.
Is it safer to be gray and numb?
What turns hard becomes rigid
and is easily shattered.

Pour yourself like a fountain.
Flow into the knowledge that what you are seeking
finishes often at the start, and, with ending, begins.

Every happiness is the child of a separation
it did not think it could survive. And Daphne, becoming a laurel,
dares you to become the wind.

- Sonnets To Orpheus, Part Two, XII
Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

Isaac Asimov
“To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
Isaac Asimov, Foundation

Jimi Hendrix
“She has the devil in her eye
And holds an angel in her heart.
She'll get you wrapped around her little finger
And tear your mind a million miles apart.
Her kiss is a cup of sunshine.”
Jimi Hendrix, Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings

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