Your children are not your children. They are the sons and d... - Kahlil Gibran

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... 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."

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"Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen."
"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."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."