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Parenting Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- 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,…
- 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,…
- 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 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…
- You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
- Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
- The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.
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