#child

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. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#before #bow #children #cry #does

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#child #creation #himself #importance #isolates

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #early #geniuses #grew #indications

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#deceive #grown #grown ups #little #need

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#concepts #form #gives #god #love

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#cannot #children #desires #fashion #given

Age merely shows what children we remain. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#children #merely #remain #shows

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#carried #childhood #held #his #hurt

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#anybody #between #body #child #diverting