Unaware. I just did what I always do
This is just an entry of quotes that mean something to me, or describe something in my life, past, present, or future. The following passage (and by far the longest one of the lot) is by Kahlil Gibran and one of my all time favorites. It's a passage from his book The Prophet concerning 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.
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.
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream, and he sometimes wondered whose it was, and whether they were enjoying it.'" - Douglas Adams
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself -- and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." - Nathanial Hawthorne
"Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically…to those who hardly think about us in return." - T.H. White
"What A frightening thing is the human, a mass of gages, and dials, and registers, but we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately." - John Steinbeck
"And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"All are architects of fate... living in these walls of time.... so look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." - Phillip Stanhope
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats." H.L. Menken
"Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is." - Sydney J. Harris
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow,when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." - George Eliot
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here." - Leo Tolstoy
"Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl
That's all. I hope you're all doing well.
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.
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream, and he sometimes wondered whose it was, and whether they were enjoying it.'" - Douglas Adams
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself -- and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." - Nathanial Hawthorne
"Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically…to those who hardly think about us in return." - T.H. White
"What A frightening thing is the human, a mass of gages, and dials, and registers, but we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately." - John Steinbeck
"And the little prince said to the man, 'Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"All are architects of fate... living in these walls of time.... so look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." - Phillip Stanhope
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats." H.L. Menken
"Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is." - Sydney J. Harris
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow,when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope." - George Eliot
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here." - Leo Tolstoy
"Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl
That's all. I hope you're all doing well.