You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.