Parent's Wish

For my child I ask:
That they seek their happiness not so much at the finish line,
  as in the running;
That they have the strength not ot life tremendous weights,
  but one fallen friend;
That they learn to fight their own battles with a never-ending
  string of temporary cease-fires;
Not that the occasion makes them smile, but that their smile
  make the occasion;
That their bridges not be built over rivers, but over
  misunderstanding;
That their wealth be not in their banks, but in their hearts;
That they gain power not over others, but over themselves;
That they bow not to little people with big titles, but to big
  people with little titles;
That their names be household words not throughout the land,
  but in their own households;
That their monuments be found not in public parks,
  but in the lives of those they've touched.