#birth

Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. ↗

— E. Stanley Jones

#blood #cannot #first #first of all #get

Growing up, my parents never gave me as much as I wanted for my birthday. For example, one year I wanted a yo-yo, and they ended up giving me some wound up string. Gee, thanks, mom. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #humor

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the pain of childbirth should be shared, so the mother would hold on to a string tied to her husband's testicles. With each painful contraction, she would give the string a yank so that the man could share the burden. Surely if such a mechanism were more widespread, injuries in childbirth would garner more attention. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#empathy #women #women-s-rights #oppression

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

I’m sorry I can’t do more. But happy birthday, Sadie.” He leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#birthday #cute #kiss #lips #love

Ones Rebirth and Resurrection are singular acts of God". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #rebirth #resurrection #r-alan-woods

The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia. ↗

— Helen Simonson

#humor #love #romance #humor

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#buddhism #death #death

I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting. ↗

— Judith Minty

#leaving #moving #poetry #rebirth #time

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#birth #creation #death #decay #growth