Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.  Joan Borysenko

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.  Steve Maraboli

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water.  Have the patience to wait.  Be still and allow the mud to settle.   Lao Tzu

At certain moments you need to have discipline, and in others you need to just be guided by life.  You have to balance your willpower with the capacity to relax and enjoy and go with the flow.  There is a Zen proverb that says, basically, if you want something, step aside and let this thing come to you.   Paulo Coelho.

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how.  The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.  The artist never entirely knows.  We guess.  We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.  Agnes de Mille