Quotes of: I-was-born Keyword

It's not like you're becoming a born-again Christian or teetotal or an accountant or something you can stop being after a while. You'll never not be a father now.' 'It feels great, Rob' he said. 'Just great.

Stag

Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time.

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

The Twelve Gifts of Birth

A soul could be resurrected and re-born to another body, its memories restored, but once the house it belonged to had been emptied, they could no longer call it home."~Taznikos Abyssos

Triton the Aegean Chronicles

Speech one may regret, Silence no sorrow begets, Humility be born before honour, Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

PT. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.

The Power of Myth

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill. As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is.

Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

The Ugly Duckling

You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

You are born with infinite possibilities. Take responsibility for turning these possibilities into reality, and you will be bestowed with success, love and eternal peace.

Vishwasutras: Universal Principles for Living: Inspired by Real-Life Experiences

Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.

What Are You Afraid Of?

Look for the heart of a tradition in the actions of its humble servants and selfless teachers. Listen and let the teachings be borne out, or set aside, based on your experience.

Western Lights: A Collection of Essays on Buddhism

Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this tongue, that it is the best language to speak? How small is your mind.

The Wretched of Muirwood

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

Walden Two

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves...

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Why We Can't Wait

Like most people born into a religious tradition, my faith was as familiar to me as my skin, and just as disregardable.

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth