Monday, September 14, 2009

From the Notecard Archives

She found no easy answer, but instead quoted Rilke: "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves." "Perhaps that is the deepest source and the greatest power of self-respect," she concluded, "learning to live with the questions that have no answer."

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5 comments:

Keetha said...

Greatest power is learning to live with questin that have no answer - I need to remember that more often. It would actually simplify things sometimes to know there just isn't an answer.

AngelMc said...

Makes me think about the Johnny Nash song:There are more questions than answers
Pictures in my mind that will not show
There are more questions than answers
And the more I find out the less I know
Yeah, the more I find out the less I know

AngelMc said...

Makes me think of the Johnny Nask song:
There are more questions than answers
Pictures in my mind that will not show
There are more questions than answers
And the more I find out the less I know
Yeah, the more I find out the less I know

Mental P Mama said...

I always have a hard time with that. Living in the gray areas of life....

Anonymous said...

You have no idea how I needed to hear this.

Amy (who is disappearing for now but will return eventually, and is glad to have found you)