Daniel

“And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: 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.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”
― George Orwell, 1984