“You are on a vast wheel of birth and death. You have been through thousands of lifetimes, thousands yet to come.” InspirationalHas BeensBuddhismBirthLifetimeWheelsBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.” PainSufferingPleasureForeverBirthLifetimeRoundsEndlessWheelsHinduismLife DeathSentient BeingsBirth And Death Author:Frederick Lenz
“At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you've had.” MomentsProductsBirthLifetimeRebirth Author:Frederick Lenz
“I have had someone wonderful things happen to me during my career and lifetime. Of course, personally, the birth of my daughter is the highlight of my life.” HappensCoursesCareersWonderfulBirthDaughterLifetimeThings HappenMy DaughterWonderful ThingsHighlights Author:Olivia Newton-John
“According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.” KindStillsEndsSometimesMomentsHappensLife IsNextSpeakGenerationsBrokenBirthTasksLifetimeMetaphorProfessionWoundsHolesDividesNext GenerationFixingUnfinishedShiva Author:Abraham Verghese
“She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.” GivingChildrenLongSelfPassionLostInterestVisionDoubtDogExpressionBirthHatredRemainsLifetimeLoyaltyYesterdayGenerositySelf InterestMockeryServitudeSelf HatredThoughtfulnessGreat Poetry Author:Thornton Wilder
“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.” IfsMeanMomentsHopeBornHellReadyBirthLifetimeDesperate Book:The Revolution of Hope Source: The Revolution of Hope
“No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.” PeopleYoungNationsProcessBornDemocracyCuttingSocietyYouthBirthCitizensLifetimeEvolveCitizenshipGood CitizenWorld CitizenLifelinesGood CitizenshipActive Citizenship Author:Kofi Annan
“The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.” CharacterProblemAgeBirthEarsLifetimeUglyNosesSarcasticUglinessWrinklesChinsJarsOld WomanFormidablePicklesBad CharacterTrigonometry Book:Holidays in Hell Source: Holidays in Hell