你的孩子上渴，其實不是你的孩子岸梨，
他們是生命對于自身渴望而誕生的孩子喜颁。
他們通過你來到這世界，
卻非因你而來曹阔，
他們在你身邊半开，卻并不屬于你。
你可以給予他們的是你的愛赃份，
卻不是你的想法寂拆，
因為他們自己有自己的思想。
你可以庇護的是他們的身體抓韩，
卻不是他們的靈魂纠永，
因為他們的靈魂屬于明天，
屬于你做夢也無法達到的明天谒拴。
你可以拼盡全力尝江，變得象他們一樣，
卻不要讓他們變得和你一樣英上，
因為生命不會后退炭序，也不在過去停留。
你是弓苍日，兒女是從你那里射出的箭惭聂。
弓箭手望著未來之路上的箭靶，
他用盡力氣將你拉開相恃，
使他的箭射得又快又遠(yuǎn)辜纲。
懷著快樂的心情，
在弓箭手的手里彎曲吧豆茫，
因為他愛一路飛翔的箭侨歉，
也愛無比穩(wěn)定的弓。
英文原版：
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.
