Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart
And try to love the questions themselves.
Do not seek the answers that 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 gradually without noticing it
Live along some distant day into the answers.
 

This question is inspired by the above quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, sent to me by Katie. I am grateful that I have many friends who share an appreciation of Rilke.

Another variation I came accross:

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.