Quote of the Day (7/13/11) (Rainer Maria Rilke)

But, alongside the most rapid movements, there will always be slow ones, such, indeed, as are of so extreme a leisureliness that we shall not live to see the course they take. But that is what humanity is for, is it not, to await the realization of that which exceeds a single life-span? From its point of view the slowest process is often the quickest, that is to say, we find that we called it slow simply because it could not be measured.
--Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Young Workman's Letter"