Live the Questions Now

Have patience 
with everything unresolved in your heart

and try to love the questions themselves,

as if they were locked rooms 
or books written

in a very foreign language . . .

All changes,

even the most longed for,

have their melancholy . . .

for what we leave behind us

is a part of ourselves;

we must die to one life

before we can enter another.

~ Anatole France ~

The important thing is this:

to be able at any moment

to sacrifice what we are

for what we could become.

~ Charles DuBois ~

And the day came

when the risk to remain tight in a bud

was more painful than the risk

it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin ~

  

Twenty years from now,

you will be more disappointed

by the things you didn’t do

than by the ones you did.

~ Mark Twain ~

. . . Don't search for the answers,

which could not be given to you now,

because you would not 
be able to live them.

And the point is, to live everything.

Live the questions now.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~