Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke

You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to 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 written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you becoause you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questiosn now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers. Perhaps you do carry within yourself the possibility of shaping and forming as a particularly happy and pure way of living; train yourself to it- but take whatever comes with great trust, and if only it comes out of your own will, out of some need of yoru inmost being, take it upon yourself and hate nothing.