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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Never regret being a good person, to the wrong people. Your behavior says everything about you, and their behavior says enough about them.

“Family is not about blood. It’s about who is willing to hold your hand when you need it the most.” 

Your child needs your presence more than your presents. – Jesse Jackson

“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.”

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. (Pele)

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Live your best, and act your best, and think your best each day, for there may be no tomorrows.

“Home is the place, where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”  

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”

“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”

 “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness…

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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