Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simpl…

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.
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