#Birth

"When I lost her I gained the future, because she was my past, and she freed me to become who I was born to be."

"I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying."

"We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith."

"The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!"

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."

"All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story."

"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."

"We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries."

"I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo."

"Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day."

"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."

"I always look like I’m lying. I was born with a politician’s face. You’ll know I’m in love when I have a Vote For Me look in my eyes."

"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."

"Nothing is born into this world without labor."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

"The only sin is the sin of being born"

"Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting."

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

"All my best writing was written before 1982, and then a significant event happened to me: I was born."

"At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel."