“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.”
―
Kahlil Gibran
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
―
Benjamin Franklin
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at
odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by
little scraps of wisdom.”
―
Umberto Eco,
Foucault's Pendulum
“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them
to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to
experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let
them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.”
―
C. JoyBell C.
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