"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, wich 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. Khalil Gibran, poet author artist The prophet

 "You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white fangs of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be space in your togetherness,
and let the winds of heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Sing and dance and be joyous, but let each one of you alone,
even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

And stand together, yet not too near together:
for the pillars of the temple stand apart,
and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow." Khalil Gibran

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