“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.”
Kahlil Gibran published The Prophet in 1923 after emigrating from Lebanon to the United States as a child. The chapter 'On Children' has been read at more parenting milestones — first days of school, college send-offs, wedding toasts — than almost any other piece of modern literature.
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