Khalil Gibran

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.

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

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.