автордың кітабынан сөз тіркестері  The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

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.

And knows that yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.

How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;

Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief,

All you have shall some day be given;