simon

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

Anne Bogart

Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

(Jean-Paul Sartre)

Ursula K. Le Guin’s translation of the Tao Te Ching:

Alas! Misery lies under happiness,
and happiness sits on misery, alas!
Who knows where it will end?
Nothing is certain.

The normal changes into the monstrous,
the fortunate into the unfortunate,
and our bewilderment goes on and on.