TAO TIT BITS - Sometimes

"Sometimes things are ahead
and sometimes they are behind;
Sometimes breathing is hard,
sometimes it comes easy;
Sometimes there is strength
and sometimes weakness;
Sometimes one is up
and sometimes down.
Therefore the sage avoids extremes,
excess, and complacency"

Taken from the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
Translated by Gia-Fu Feng, Publisher Wildwood House. 1974