A friend of mine sent me this quote yesterday — wont say why (grin). It’s from ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December, 1875 — 29 December, 1926) is generally considered the German language’s greatest 20th century poet.
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
On wikiquote.org I also found this variation:
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. 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. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. (as translated by Stephen Mitchell)