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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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Prophet (1923), On Children. Written in English. Spoken by Almustafa, the literary speaker in The Prophet. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/58585/pg58585-images.html
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