The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait . . . You will find that you survive humiliation and hat's an experience of incalculable value.
Source: From an Internet collection of quotations.
-- T S Eliot, (Sep 26 1888-1965), US-English poet, critic, playwright; He dwelled on the theme of emptiness of modern life, e.g., The Cocktail Party, 1950.