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. 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.

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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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