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

More Motivational, Inspiring Quotes

It hurts when you go through something that kills you inside but you have to act like it doesn’t affect you.

“If you think friendship is easy, then you have never had a true friend.”

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

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”

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

“Don’t make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what’s actually good for you.”

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

“Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

“If you’re in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

Being Human is Given. But keeping our Humanity is a Choice.

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Best Inspiring Quotes – APJ Abdul Kalam

You’re running a race and at the very end, you pass the person in 2nd place. What place did you finish the race in?

A 300 ft. train is traveling 300 ft. per minute must travel through a 300 ft. long tunnel.  How long will it take the train to travel through the tunnel?

A loyal woman is one of the greatest thing a man can have in his life but it takes a real man to realize that.

“Anything that costs your peace is too expensive”

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

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