14. JanuarySpeak your everlasting Yes: work and do not despair. At the very heart of distress everything turns — and becomes strength. 11. MarchThrough enemy country, over snow and pass they marched — until the cry ran through the ranks: 'The sea! The sea!' To those who do not give up, hardship at last opens the way home. 4. AprilThe way up leads first downward. Whoever crosses the dark wood and the depths steps out again at last — to see the stars once more. 11. MayDon't say the struggle is wholly in vain. / Up front, where you stand, nothing seems to give — / but behind, in silence, fed from far away, / the flood has long been rising and fills the land. 7. JuneHold fast, O heart: even the longest night of sorrow / the morning outwaits. / Whoever knows that every darkness has an end / can bear the darkness, too. 10. JuneEndure, and keep yourselves for better days. Perhaps one day it will please us to remember even this. 22. JulyPractise even the things you despair of. The left hand, too, unpractised in everything else, holds the reins more firmly than the right — for in this it is practised. 31. JulyEndure the presence of pain, and you will see: it has a measure. What makes it unbearable is only the thought that it is beyond measure.