Be Content With What You Have; Rejoice In The Way Things Are. When You Realize There Is Nothing Lacking,

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

—Lao Tzu

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”

—Epictetus

“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”

—Lao Tzu

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

—Epictetus

“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”—Lao Tzu

This reminds me to take action (no matter how small)

Kahlil Gibran:

“Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;

For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.”

—Kahlil Gibran