“Come into my lap and sit in the center of your soul. Drink the living waters of memory and give birth to yourself. What you unearth with stun you. You will paint the walls of this cave in thanksgiving.” GivingSoulWaterMemoriesWallBirthDrinkPaintYour SoulCavesLap Author:Meinrad Craighead
“A small boy puts his hand on the wall, and looks down intently as he wriggles his toes. The birth of thought?” ThinkingLooksHandsBoysWallBirthThoughtfulToes Author:Mason Cooley
“If you knew everyone's story, you would love them. You can't really hate anyone if you know everything that happened to them between their birth and now; why they became the way they became; why they have walls up or down. If you truly know someone, you'd get it.” IfsKnowsWayStoriesHateHappenedWallBirthWalls Up Author:Emma Stone
“Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was long ago demolished. And in myself, too, many things have perished which I imagined would last for ever, and new ones have arisen, giving birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are hard to understand.” GivingYearsLongHardLightLastsJoyNightWallBirthSorrowClimbsCandleLong AgoGiving BirthStaircasesForeseen Book:The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half Source: The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half
“Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.” FacesWhiteCuttingHairWallBirthKissingStormAwakeClimbsYearningThickCastlesThornsDo It YourselfCastle Walls Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa