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“The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother's mother, on back to Mother Earth.”

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“There are things in this life that you must face alone. Birth is one of them-death is another.”

Book:The Council

Source: The Council

“Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.”

Beautiful Beauty Baby Birth Ugly

Book:Small Great Things

Source: Small Great Things

“A bed is a place where so much of life is played out - births and deaths and passions and dreaming - all the most fundamental moments of our fragile human existence.”

Death Passion Dreams Birth Beds

Book:Amy Snow

Source: Amy Snow

“Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can’t have the same experience.”

Life Death Birth Resurrection Easter Beginnings Refresh Refreshed

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I forget your name," I said. "Most people spew shit from their arse," he retorted, "you manage it with your mouth." "Your mother gave birth through her arse," I said, "and you still reek of her shit.”

Mother Birth Name Shit Arse Reek Mourth

Book:The Flame Bearer

Source: The Flame Bearer

“I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I made up lies So that they all fit nice, And I made this sad world A par-a-dise.”

Poetry Consolatory

Book:A Man Without a Country

Source: A Man Without a Country

“Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?' she asked. 'Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?' 'Wouldn't it be great if it did?' I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering. Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing life otherwise was like painting a tiger without stripes. After so many years of living with death, I'd come to understand that the easiest death wasn't necessarily the best. We talked it over. Our families gave their blessing. We decided to have a child. We would carry on living, instead of dying.”

Death Suffering Birth

Book:When Breath Becomes Air

Source: When Breath Becomes Air

“Too often our lives are soiled to desperation by endings that in reality are magnificently outnumbered by beginnings. And unless we become convinced that an ending is always the birthplace of a beginning that is on its way, we will live terribly soiled lives.”

Birth Resurrection Desperation Easter Ending Beginnings

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Miseries of a birth.”

Birth Misery Mourning Parenthood

Book:Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

Source: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.”

Source: Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working