Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Khalil Gibran
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  2. Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. - Nicholas Sparks

  3. The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person. - Chuck Palahniuk

  4. Where there is love there is life. - Mahatma Gandhi

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More Quotes By Khalil Gibran
  1. The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

  2. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

  3. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

  4. Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

  5. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

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