To prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Birth
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"
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"
God schedules a birthday, not man.
-Robert A. Bradley
"Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth"
Physical birth takes place because of parents, but spiritual birth by sacred soul.
-Jesus Christ
Why are you trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?
-Oliver James
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-George Santayana
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
Having attained human birth, which is an open gateway to Brahmn, one who… remains attached to the ties of the world is not fit to be called human.
-Srimad Bhagavad Gita "Srimad Bhagavatam 11.3"
