Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Be of good courage all is before you, and time passed in the difficult is never lost...What is required of us is that we live the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.
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