It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). Letters on Life: New Prose Translations, p.50, Modern Library
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It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be. ✨ Rainer Maria Rilke (2007). Letters on Life: New Prose Translations, p.50, Modern Library

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