Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?
-Oliver James
Quotations
Birth
When you are free from delusion, you will go beyond birth and death.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-Oscar Wilde
Is there a rebirth or reincarnation? Definitely yes... But according to the law of
nature, if you do not exist at all, then you cannot be 'born'; and if you exist, you
cannot be destroyed.
-Deep Trivedi
There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born, where objects became dear to us before we had known the labour of choice.
-George Eliot
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
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.
-Gabriel García Márquez
"Love in the Time of Cholera"
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, We live a little while. We die.
-E. B. White
"Charlotte's Web"
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality.
-A Spiritual Leader "Adyashanti"
Birth is the beginning of death.
-Thomas Fuller
