The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran

Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.

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.

But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore,