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. Anonymous
About This Quote

The above quote by Kahlil Gibran is the perfect illustration of the fact that children are not ours. They are our children, but not our property. We can give them our love, but we cannot tell them what to think, for they do not belong to us. We can give them the house in which they live, but we cannot make their houses for them.

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