Another Quote

This was an excerpt I shared in my last class and I just wanted to post it again because I think it is so beautiful; especially the last line...

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

Excerpt from Kahlil Gibran

Quote

I just wanted to share this quote....as a member of the Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, I thought this was neat.

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."
--Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux chief

Assessment

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
--Ray L. Wilbur, third president of Stanford University