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Quotes About Evolution

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything is gestation and then birthing.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Around everything that is perfected, the unfinished ascends and intensifies.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
No feeling is final.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Du mußt dein Leben ändern.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
This humanity of woman, brought forth in pains and degradations, will come to light when she has shed the conventions of mere femininity in the alterations of her outward station, and the men who today do not feel it coming will be surprised and struck by it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Who has turned us around like this, so that whatever we do, we find ourselves in the attitude of someone going away? Just as that person on the last hill, which shows him his whole valley one last time, turns, stops, lingers - so we live, forever taking our leave.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The comprehensible slips away, is transformed; instead of possession one learns connection.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Don't you see that everything that happens is always a beginning again.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
take pleasure in your growth, in which no one can accompany you, and be kind-hearted towards those you leave behind
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Everything is gestation and then bringing forth.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing which is, is static.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
DeÄŸiÅŸmekte olduÄŸumu ne diye birine söyleyeyim ki? DeÄŸiÅŸirken, eski ben olarak kalm?yorum ve ÅŸimdiye kadarkinden biraz daha baÅŸkay?m, dolay?s?yla tan???m kimse olmad??? ortada. Ve yabanc?lara, beni tan?mayan insanlara mümkün deÄŸil yazamam.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
if he demolished pillars, it was when he burst from the world of your body into the narrower world.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
O futuro é fixo, meu caro senhor Kappus, nós é que estamos sempre em movimento no espaço infinito.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Losing is also ours; and even forgetting/ has a shape in the permanent realm of mutation./ Things we've let go of circle; and though we are rarely a center/ of these circles: they trace around us the unbroken figure.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Nothing ever stops; it divides and multiplies, and I guess sometimes it gets ground down superfine, but it doesn't just blow away.
~ Ralph Ellison
You start Saul, and end up Paul, my grandfather had often said. When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul -- though you still Sauls around on the side.
~ Ralph Ellison
I had accepted the accepted attitudes and it had made life seem simple. But not anymore.
~ Ralph Ellison
You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.
~ Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
A start is a start, and 'is' is 'is' not 'was'.
~ Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth