"Follow your own position ...."

“Follow your own position, put on your clothes, eat and be done with it.”

"I stepped from plank ...."

I stepped from plank to plank

So slow and cautiously;

The stars about my head I felt,

About my feet the sea.

I knew not but the next

Would be my final inch.

This gave me that precarious gait

Some call experience.

Emily Dickinson

"There are four things ...."

“There are four things certain in life:

life

death

happiness

sadness”

from The Orphan of Zhao