#Birth

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

"Nothing is born into this world without labor."

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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"

"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."

"Riding a bicycle makes you impotent. That’s why I carry a bicycle seat in my pocket—because it’s better than wearing a condom."

"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."

"It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible."

"Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard."

"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."

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."

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

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

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

"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."

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