Born Quotes (page 51)

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• mindfulness
• looking back
• reflection

wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore. Amy Tan

• alone
• borne
• ourselves

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.) Marcus Tullius Cicero

• past
• today
• evil

But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been. Edgar Allan Poe

• life
• expectation
• little

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies? and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia. William James

• freedom
• struggle
• world

Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal. Thomas Carlyle

• writer
• either
• either or

You are either born a writer or you are not. Cormac McCarthy

• eyes
• old
• tears

There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die? Frederick Buechner

• great
• opportunity
• moments

Great moments are born from great opportunities. Herb Brooks

• life
• pricing
• oneness

One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born. Henrik Ibsen

• lost
• die
• lose

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything! Emile M. Cioran

• rebellion
• borne
• aware

With rebellion, awareness is born Albert Camus

• marvel
• wellness
• soul

And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels were taking place as well. Just so, the world over, bodies, minds, and souls are constantly being born again, during miles on the road. George A. Sheehan

• morning
• lannisters
• borne

I was not born this morning, Lannister? George R. R. Martin

• inspirational
• life
• your life

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. Mark Twain

• look
• father son
• sister

As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image. And as the mole on my right breast is where it was when I was born, though all my body has been woven of new stuff time after time, so through the ghost of the unquiet father the image of the unliving son looks forth. In the intense instant of imagination, when the mind, Shelley says, is a fading coal, that which I was is that... James Joyce