THE PROPHET裡面ON CHILDREN:

Your children are not your children.they are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.And though they are with you yet they belong not to you .

Your are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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.

但，如果你射出的箭卻回過頭來射向你？

love one another,but make not a bond of love.