ON CHILDREN

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you,

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them,

but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might

that His arrows may go swift and far.

Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies,

so He loves also the bow that is stable.

— Kahlil Gibran

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Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

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“When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.”

“Don’t worry about those who talk behind your back, they are behind you for a reason.”

“The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem.”

“We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.”

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