Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My children are my whole life.
Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.
My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.
You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.
I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.
Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.
You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve.
When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.