You are so young; you stand before beginnings.

"You are so young; you stand before beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Perhaps you are indeed carrying within yourself the potential to visualize, to design, and to create for yourself an utterly satisfying, joyful, and pure lifestyle. Discipline yourself to attain it, but accept that which comes to you with deep trust, and as long as it comes from your own will, from your own inner need, accept it, and do not hate anything. [. . .] Nearly everything that matters is a challenge, and everything matters."

--Letters To A Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)

...Best advice I've heard in a long time...

We are unutterably alone, essentially,
especially in the things most intimate
and most important to us.

--Rainer Maria Rilke [Letters To A Young Poet]

Great book, by the way...