Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most

Summary

This quote suggests that loving another person is one of the greatest challenges in our lives. It portrays love as the ultimate, final test and validation of our abilities. It implies that all the work we engage in, throughout our lives, serves as a preparation for this complex and demanding task of truly loving another individual.

Topics

Love

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

George Washington

God

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

Education

It has often been observed, that those who have the most tim

It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the least. A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.

William Ellery Channing

Learning

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that give

He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.

Advice

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the s

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Power

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Learning

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Anna Paglia

Women

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determi

Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with th

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell

Solitude

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Intelligence

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, h

Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances... If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.

Speeches (oratory)

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what i

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Life Love