don't run

Nadya, pink-cheeked, happy, her eyes shining with tears 

in expectation of something extraordinary, circled

in the dance, her white dress billowing and showing glimpses

of her slim, pretty legs in their flesh-tinted

stockings. Varya, thoroughly contented, took Podgorin by the arm

and said to him under her breath with significant expression:

'Misha, don't run away from your happiness. Take it

while it offers itself to you freely, later you will be running

after it, but you won't overtake it.'

[Anton Chekhov {1860-1904}, from A Visit to Friends]