Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are 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 thir 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 make 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 also loves the bow that is stable.”
Khalil Gibran
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
― Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
― Khalil Gibran
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