#birth

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #birth




My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.


C.S. Lewis


#faith #grief #grieving #loss #stillbirth

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.


Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez


#identity #life #self #life

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.


Oprah Winfrey


#celebrate #life #more #praise #you

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.


Christopher Hitchens


#empowerment-of-women #mother-teresa #poverty #poverty-alleviation #life

I count too heavily on birthdays, though I know I shouldn't. Inevitably I begin to assess my life by them, figure out how I'm doing by how many people remember; it's like the old fantasy of attending your own funeral: You get to see who your friends are, get to see who shows up.


Lorrie Moore


#life

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.


Lisa See


#life #life

After a thousand years pass, it builds its own funeral pyre, lining it with cinnamon, myrrh and cassia. Climbing to a rest on the very top, it examines the world all throughout the night with the ability to see true good and evil. When the sun rises the next morning, with great sorrow for all that it sees, it sings a haunting song. As it sings, the heat of the sun ignites the expensive spices and the Phoenix dies in the flames. But the Phoenix is not remarkable for its feathers or flames. It is most revered for its ability to climb from its own funeral pyre, from the very ashes of its old charred body, as a brand new life ready to live again once more. Life after life, it goes through this cycle. It absorbs human sorrow, only to rise from death to do it all again. It never wearies, it never tires. It never questions its fate. Some say that the Phoenix is real, that it exists somewhere out there in the mountains of Arabia, elusive and mysterious. Others say that the Phoenix is only a wish made by desperate humans to believe in the continuance of life. But I know a secret. We are the Phoenix.


Courtney Cole


#inspirational #rebirth #death

How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life


William Sears


#life #truth #life

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.


Janet Fitch


#happiness #hope #sentimentality #wishes #wishing

We're all born an empty page.


Lauren DeStefano


#life #page #story #life