Birth proverbs

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

- E.B. White99

◆ The year you were born marks only your entry into the world. Other years where you prove your worth, they are the ones worth celebrating.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ 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.

- Diane Setterfield99

◆ Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

- Jim Morrison99

◆ My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

- Stephen Fry99

◆ 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.

- Anne Lamott99

◆ They should tell you when you're born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

- Gabrielle Zevin99

◆ 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.

- Fernando Pessoa99

◆ The only sin is the sin of being born

- Samuel Beckett99

◆ Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

- Erma Bombeck99

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

- E.M. Forster99

◆ Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceri, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

- Ina May Gaskin99

◆ On ne na't pas femme: on le devient.

- Simone de Beauvoir99

◆ 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)

- Joseph Campbell99

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

- Rabindranath Tagore99