Vishnu

“Your children are not your children.
They are 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 thir 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 make 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 also loves the bow that is stable.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“To visit planet earth you will have to be born as a human child.

At first you will have to learn to use your new body , to move your arms and legs, and to pull yourself upright.

You will learn to run, to use your hands, to make sounds and form words.

Slowly you will learn to take care of yourself.

There will be so much for you to learn and so much for you to feel - pleasure and fear , joy and disappointment , sadness and wonder.

You will grow up, travel , and work. Perhaps you will have children , even grandchildren , of your own.

Over the years you will try to make sense of that happy , sad ,full ,empty , always-shifting life you are in.

And when the time comes to return to your star, it may be hard to say goodbye to that strangely beautiful world.”
― Claire A. Nivola (Author)

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I'm one of those people who lived sensibly and sanely, hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have.

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.”
― nadine stair