If you look to your children
to provide meaning for your life,
your life will be meaningless.
If you need them to be successful
to feel successful yourself,
you will always fail.
Your children were not born
to complete your life.
They were born to complete their own.
When you look inside and discover...
- William Martin
verse 44 of, The Parent's Tao Te Ching
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