Return gift for teacher’s day wish from my master!
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The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.
He can find worthwhile occupation in forests and mountains.
He stays in a small cottage and associates with the simple.
He would not exchange his work clothes for the imperial robes,
Nor the load on his back for a four-horse carriage.
He leaves the jade in the mountains and the pearls in the sea.
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he can be happy –
he knows when to stop.
He does not pick the brief-blossoming flower;
he does not travel the dangerous road.
To him, the ten thousand possessions are dust in the wind.
He sings as he travels among the green mountains.
~ Ko Hung
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It is so true – that we all have one life and a complete lifetime for turning this privilege into a remarkable one – only when we are contented…
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