#Birth

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

"There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away."Pg. 155 Undone"

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

"I don’t remember my birth. I guess I got dementia at a young age."

"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."

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

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

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

"My dreams died nine months before I was born"

"I’m an only child, and therefore I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me, they wouldn’t even be parents."

"I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever."

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

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

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

"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!"

"33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins."

"Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth."

"From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain."

"When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)"