#Birth

"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."

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

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

"Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all."

"When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die."

"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc."

"A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life."

"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."

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

"The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God."

"After your death, you will be what you were before your birth."

"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."

"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."

"If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine."

"when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you."

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

"After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die."

"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!"

"On ne naît pas femme: on le devient."

"The only sin is the sin of being born"