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And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children." And he said: 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. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday..." ~ Kahlil Gibran
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I never was taken by Kahlin Gibran until I read the paragraph above. Now I am taken.
But sadly, like all men who
are lucky enough to extract a profound truth from life... he keeps on talking.
In Gilbran's case it is all that stuff about arrows and archers and such.
And in my case above it is everything after "Now I am taken".

Thanks billigerentyouth, you are wise beyond your callow years.