| On
children (and bringing them up) |
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| Pearl
S. Buck |
| The
young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible
- and achieve it, generation after generation. |
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| Angela
Schwindt |
| While
we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what
life is about. |
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| M.
Scott |
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| There's
a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's
a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then. |
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| Logan
Smith in "Afterthoughts" |
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| Don't
laugh at a youth for his affections. He is only trying on one face after
another to find a face of his own. |
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| Isadora
Duncan in "My Life" |
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| The
finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make it's own
way, completely on it's own feet. |
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| Rabindranath
Tagore in "Fireflies" |
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| The
soil in return for her services keeps the tree tied to her. The sky asks
nothing and leaves it free. |
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| Hodding
Carter |
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| There
are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these
is roots, the other, wings. |
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| Kahlil
Gibran in "The Prophet" |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
| You
are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The
Archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with
His might that His arrows may go swift and far. |
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Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves
the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. |
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