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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.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."
Author - Kahlil Gibran
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A GOOD LESSON
A young boy was getting angry all the time, and it was causing alot of pain in his life.
One day his father witnessed this anger that his son was expressing.
He pulled his son aside, and took him out to the back yard.
He handed the boy a hammer, and a box of nails.
He told his son that every time he gets angry, he is to come out to the back yard, and drive a nail into the backyard fence..
And that for every day that he went without getting angry, he could come out here, and remove a nail..
Well, at first, the young boy was pounding alot of nails, sometimes many in the course of one day..
But gradually, he learned to control his temper and was able to pull a nail out of the fence one evening before he went to bed.
Well, that inspired him to work a little harder at it..
The boy tried very hard to control his temper, and soon he found that he was pulling more nails than he was pounding..
After a few months, when he was pulling the last nail from the fence, his father came to him and said.
"Son I am very proud of you.. You have learned to control your anger very well...
But the point to all this is look at my fence...
Sure, you pulled out all of the nails, but my fence is now full of holes..
So you see, that every time you get angry, and lose your temper...
Even if you take it back later on..
It still leaves a scar..
A scar that cannot be removed...
Sure, over time the scar may become less noticeable, but it's still there..."
