The Wisdom in Kung Fu Panda
I actually have found comfort in my personal life from thinking about that little passage where the panda frets, "Maybe I should just quit and go back to making noodles", and the guru responds, "Quit, don't quit. Noodles, don't noodles. You are too concerned about what was and what will be."<p>Sometimes you just need to stop thinking so much and get through the day.<p>There is a similar point from Marcus Aurelius where he says (in this old timey translation): "Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them... having with thee the same reason which now thou usest."<p>PS. Another example of unexpectedly good writing is when the student-turned-bad-guy bitterly says, "What I ever did, I did to make you proud! Tell me how proud you are, Shifu", and then after a pause Shifu replies with genuine agreement: "I have always been proud of you... And it was my pride that blinded me... too much to see what you were becoming."