Khalil Gibran Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

• 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

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Arrows

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Children, Parenting

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

• Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Kindness, Mirrors

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Separation

• You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Yesterday

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

• You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Giving

  The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

• For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Parenting, Yesterday, Bows And Arrows

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

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