7. JanuaryMost of what we say and do is not necessary. Whoever leaves it out has more calm and less trouble. So ask yourself of every thing: Does this belong to what is necessary? — and leave out not only unnecessary actions but also unnecessary thoughts: then no superfluous deeds will follow them either. 13. February“We never keep to the present. We anticipate the future as if it were coming too slowly, and call back the past to hold on to it. So we wander through times that are not ours and never think of the only one that truly belongs to us.” 18. FebruaryOn the shore, in the coming and going of the waves, I forgot the world and myself — and was simply there. 26. FebruaryIn the quiet contemplation of great nature the troubled mind finds peace; the order of the whole stills one's own unrest. 25. April“The moment is that point at which time and eternity touch each other. Whoever seizes it leaps — out of endless brooding over yesterday and tomorrow, into the only thing that is truly real: the now.” 8. AugustI live right above a bathhouse: voices of every kind — the groans of the men swinging weights, the slap of the masseur, the bellowing of the quarrellers, the splash of the divers. Yet I swear to you: the noise outside does no harm if there is calm within. Everything may roar, so long as no turmoil dwells in the breast. 27. August“Let go of what lies behind you. Let go of what lies before you. Let go of what is in between. Whoever crosses over with a free heart is no longer seized by becoming and passing away.” 30. AugustA quiet mind finds leisure everywhere. To be content with little is a greater fortune than the possession of worlds.