“Just because you are having a nasty day, does not mean you live a grim life!

What keeps us going and determined is optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”

Last update May 14, 2022. History

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"What does it mean?"

"It means that you are beautiful.”

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“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

from poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing.

Appears in movie Jojo Rabbit.
Variant: Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

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“Lovers to-day and for all time
Preserve the meaning of my rhyme:
Love is not kindly nor yet grim
But does to you as you to him.”

Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist

"Advice To Lovers"
Country Sentiment (1920)

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