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Inspirational
Stories
On
Commitment
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to
draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of
initiative (and creation).
There
is an elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless
ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits
oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur
to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole
stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's
favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and
material assistance which no man could have dreamed would
have come his way.
Whatever
you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
-Goethe
On Parenting...
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 with you His might that His arrows might 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.
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Kahlil Gibran |
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Cosmos
of Happiness
