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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Kahlil Gibran Quote
“We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.”
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