YLVNYC

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 you with His might that His arrows may 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. 💫 • • • • • • • #kahlilgibran #quotes #greatpoet #greatwriters #ylvnyc ##notetoself #handwritten #redink https://www.instagram.com/p/B4WtTtxg8Vm/?igshid=klzdfyywinns

The sky is crying Washing the trees 🍁🍂🍁 Time is flying Nostalgia in the breeze 🍁🍂🍁 Dancing with the wind Draping the Earth with gold 🍁🍂🍁 What is new Will be old. 💋 🍁🍂🍁 • • • • • • • #ylvnyc #autumn #vibes #poetry #motherearth #loveher #reality #iphonography #seasonschange #somethingsremainthesame #changeisgood #evenwhenithurts #sometimesiwriteshit https://www.instagram.com/p/B4U5PVtAzy2/?igshid=98odkwp4pg7b

Rest. Don’t quit 💋. • • • • • • • #ylvnyc #notetoself #keepgoing #stayfocused #dontquit #restdontquit #onefootinfrontoftheother #grateful #humble #keepdreaming #falldown7getup8 #dreambig #empower #10toesdown #power #perspective #perseverance #persistence #paperapp https://www.instagram.com/p/B4F_GN-AJyS/?igshid=ud97nmy6fk33

I am smiling. • • • • • • • 🖤 #iam #ylvnyc #smiling #ontheinside #mood #stillblessed #loveandlight #onelove #haveanicelife #makeithappen #iam 🖤 {photo credit: The Italian Americans PBS documentary series-2014} https://www.instagram.com/p/B35YTsAgfLF/?igshid=1j3nhrso27qfc

“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements? Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.” #kahlilgibran • •• ••• •••• ••••• •••••• ••••••• #ylvnyc #greatpoets #greatquotes #knowthyself #note2self #notetoself #stickynotes https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ki2SkAxyD/?igshid=1dugcc4pz3q8e

“A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush.” • • • • • • • #LadyGaga @ladygaga #ylvnyc #greatquotes #iphonography #blackandwhite #newyorkcity #newyork #elbarrio #spanishharlem #eastharlem #nyc #middlefingersalute https://www.instagram.com/p/B3bIjNBg8vz/?igshid=1qverqsoxmbqi

To be or not to be. Choose wisely. 💋 • • • • • • • (I don’t think this is a direct Rumi quote, I saw it in a Rumi inspired oracle deck once. I was feeling too lazy to rewrite it) #ylvnyc #youarewhatyouare #realeyesrealize #realize #dreambig #ownit #greatwords #tobeornottobe #choices #choosewisely #pen #paper #words #handwritten #notetoself https://www.instagram.com/p/B3G11XxAVLB/?igshid=1nx905uxxzh8e

You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and spaceless? But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. • • • • • • • #tbt #OnTime #kahlilgibran #greatpoets #nyc #iphontography #newyorkcity #smokingmanholes #smokesignals #peoplewatching #blurrypeople #moving #throughtime #greatshotiforgotabout #ylvnyc 💋 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2nZzBMAbpQ/?igshid=ob179woqtq6v

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams. And it is well you should. The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself like a lotus of countless petals. • • • • • • • #kahlilgibran #ylvnyc #greatpoet #greatpoetry #knowledgeofself #selfknowledge #selflove #selfcare #selfcarehacks #love #firststep #greatestjourney #handwritten #notetoself ✍🏼💋🖤♠️ https://www.instagram.com/p/B2WvpxnAIYL/?igshid=1d1wrli3fktct