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
Quotations
Birth
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?
-Oliver James
To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
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
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
God schedules a birthday, not man.
-Robert A. Bradley
"Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth"
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
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"
