"When we are born we cry that we are come..
to this great stage of fools."
-William Shakespeare

"It is as painful perhaps to be
awakened from a vision as to be born."
-James Augustine

"And when our baby stirs
and struggles to be born
it compels humility:
what we began is now its own."
-Anne Ridler

"Man's main task in life
is to give birth to himself,
to become what he potentially is."
-Erich Fromm

"Thoughts give birth to a creative force
that is neither elemental nor sideral.
Thoughts create a new heaven,
a new firmament, a new source of
energy, from which new arts flow.
When a man undertakes to create
something, he establishes a new heaven,
as it were and from it the work that
he desires to create flows into him.
For such is the immensity of man that
he is greater than heaven and earth."
-Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

"The birthplace of success for each person
is in his Inner-Consciousness.
The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever
it is given. If constructive thoughts are
planted positive outcomes will be the result.
Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.
And since the only real freedom a person has is
the choice of what thoughts he will feed to his
Inner-Consciousness he is totally responsible
for the outcomes he gets."
-Sidney Madwed

"Change is the constant,
the signal for rebirth,
the egg of the phoenix."
-Christina Baldwin

"Men are equal; it is not birth
but virtue that makes the difference."
-Voltaire

"The first thing which I can record
concerning myself is, that I was born.
These are wonderful words.
This life, to which neither time nor
eternity can bring diminution . . .
this everlasting living soul, began.
My mind loses itself in these depths."
-Margaret Oliphant