31. JanuaryThey also serve who only stand and wait. / God does not need your works, nor your haste — / whoever bears his lot with patience serves him best. 12. FebruaryDrink from this moment, for it is your life. Yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come — what you surely possess is the now alone. 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.” 29. MarchNever act while the storm rages within. The prudent man waits until the churned-up water has cleared — only then does he see the bottom. 20. MayOnly art, it alone held me back. Patience – so it is said – is what I must now choose as my guide. 1. JuneWith every pleasure: wait. Hold both times before your eyes — the one in which you will enjoy it, and the one in which, afterwards, you regret it and reproach yourself. And against these: how you will rejoice and praise yourself if you have abstained. 19. AugustPatience is the art of hoping. And great thoughts do not come from the clever head but from the heart — from what a person has learned to bear. 11. OctoberLearn to be still. In patient waiting by the river dwells a calm that no ambition has ever known.