Top 100 We Are Born Quotes
#1. We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.
Robert McCammon
#2. We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.
Marcus Aurelius
#3. I do not think we are born with empathy. We learn it only after we have felt the hurt that we've inflicted on another.
M.D. Ireman
#4. We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.
Vishwas Chavan
#5. We are born under circumstances that would be favorable if we did not abandon them. It was nature's intention that there should be no need of great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.
Seneca.
#6. We are born into our World, educated to adjust to it according to the dominant and accepted norms and pretty much left to sink or swim!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#7. We are born seekers, calling strange names into the darkness from our earliest days because we know we are not meant to be alone, and because we know that we await someone whom we cannot always see.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#8. It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.
Anna Magnani
#9. Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet.
Philip Massinger
#10. We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.
Robert Harris
#11. We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life.
Sorin Cerin
#12. We are born with a seed of selfhood that contains the spiritual DNA of our uniqueness-an encoded birthright knowledge of who we are, why we are here, and how we are related to others. We may abandon that knowledge as the years go by, but it never abandons us.
Parker J. Palmer
#13. We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.
Huston Smith
#14. We are born creators, here to achieve the exuberant expression of our gifts. The
Charles Eisenstein
#15. Death is not the worst thing. It is His gift to us, and end to want and pain. On the day that we are born the Many-Faced God sends each of us a dark angel to walk through life beside us. When our sins and our sufferings grow to great to be borne, the angel takes us.
George R R Martin
#16. We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
Jacob Needleman
#17. Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.
Mark Cuban
#18. From the moment we are born, people tell us that the world is like this and like that, this way, that way. It is natural that - for a certain period of time - we end up believing what we are told. But we must soon push these ideas aside and discover our own way of living reality.
Paulo Coelho
#19. We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.
Hugh Howey
#20. Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it's born with us the day that we are born.
Homer
#21. We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#22. We are born into God's kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
Corrie Ten Boom
#23. A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. When we are born into this world, the world revolves around us. We're spoon-fed on the front end and diaper-changed on the back end. It's as if the entire world exists to meet our every need. And that's fine if you are a two-month-old baby. If you're twenty-two, it's a problem! Newsflash:
Mark Batterson
#25. We are born at the rise of the curtain and we die with its fall, and every night in the presence of our patrons we write our new creation, and every night it is blotted out forever; and of what use is it to say to audience or to critic, 'Ah, but you should have seen me last Tuesday?'
Micheal Mac Liammoir
#26. We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.
David J. Morris
#27. We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.
Michael Talbot
#28. Success makes me happy, but it doesn't give me peace. Because I do believe that success is not enough for our cause. We are born to struggle and nothing must deceive us.
M.F. Moonzajer
#29. We are born to suffer, that our suffering might make us strong
George R R Martin
#30. We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.
Steve King
#31. We are born not knowing anything,
and then we die not knowing everything.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. Everything spiritual manifests itself visually, everything which is visual turns into spiritual energy, I don't think this is so difficult to grasp. After all, we are born knowing we have a body and a soul: why not understand that sex also has them?
Paulo Coelho
#33. From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.
Russell Peters
#34. We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.
Ethel Percy Andrus
#35. Hope is a seed that grows inside us from the moment we are born
J.D. Willd
#38. We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it
Michel De Montaigne
#39. We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.
Sandra Gulland
#40. We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.
Anita Moorjani
#41. I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#42. We are born and reborn again and again. We are changing with the waves of time.
Debasish Mridha
#43. We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#44. We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.
Leo Buscaglia
#45. There is no getting around the fundamental fact that we need to interact with everything in order to manifest the wholeness we are born with.
Mark Nepo
#46. The only guarantee we are given when we are born is that we will die.
Shannon K. Butcher
#48. There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road.
T.F. Hodge
#51. Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.
Frederick Lenz
#52. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.
Albert Einstein
#53. I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.
Shirley Maclaine
#54. We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.
C.S. Lewis
#56. A few of us are extraverts. A few of us are introverts. But most of us are ambiverts, sitting near the middle, not the edges, happily attuned to those around us. In some sense, we are born to sell.
Daniel H. Pink
#58. We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
Emil Cioran
#59. We forget that stretch marks, cellulite and some stomach fat is natural. We forget that we are born human and physically can't be perfect. We forget that God doesn't make us out of plastic and silicone. We forget to be flawed.
Skye Townsend
#60. Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together
Justin Bieber
#61. The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.
Joan Sutherland
#62. We are born an empty bookshelf.
Life is what we fill it with.
Felicia Day
#63. We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.
Dawn Fraser
#64. The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.
Nicolas Berggruen
#65. We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.
Yamaga Soko
#66. We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening
Zhuangzi
#67. There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.
Thomas Merton
#68. But we are born to be happy, to be abundantly supplied with every good thing, to have fun in living, to consciously unite with the Divine Power that is around us and within us, and to grow and expand forever.
Ernest Holmes
#69. We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.
Ayn Rand
#70. We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.
Sandra Bartky
#71. We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.
Harville Hendrix
#73. Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which we are born and from which we can escape only with the greatest of efforts.
Milan Kundera
#75. I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
#76. Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire.
Justin Young
#77. We are born on the same soil, breathe the same air, live on the same land, and why should we not be brothers and sisters?
Nathan Bedford Forrest
#78. Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.
Edward De Bono
#79. Bliss is our birthright! We are born for bliss. That is the inspiration behind Living In Bliss.
Tia Walker
#80. Intuition is the highest form of knowledge. What we learn from others can be mistaught by those not a fraction as knowledgeable as they pretend or by those who are propagandists with agendas. We are born with intuition, however, which includes the natural law, a sense of right and wrong.
Dean Koontz
#81. We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.
Jeff Buckley
#82. We are assumed to be rather hopeless
swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
Elizabeth Berg
#83. Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.
Mario Puzo
#84. Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.
Octavio Paz
#85. We are born to love and leave. What remains is disappointment
Anonymous
#86. I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think it speedeth fast,
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
Who will riddle me the how and the why?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#87. There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.
Roger Ebert
#88. This earth indeed is the very Body of God, and it is from this body that we are born, live, suffer, and resurrect to eternal life. Either all is God's Great Project, or we may rightly wonder whether anything is God's Great Project. One wonders if we humans will be the last to accept this.
Richard Rohr
#89. We are born to serve, to find the power of love, and to get what we deserve.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
Richard Dawkins
#91. From the moment we are born, we are
dying. Little by little, with each day that passes, we draw closer to the inevitable.
Jonathan L. Ferrara
#92. We are born with hope. We grow up with hope. We live with hope. We love with hope. We vanish from this world with eternal hope.
Debasish Mridha
#93. We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.
Louis Kahn
#94. I think we are born into what we're supposed to learn and find out in this life.
Tyler Perry
#95. We are born ready to love and be loved. It is our birthright.
Sharon Salzberg
#96. The only thing that might attract vermin is the rancid expression on your face," she said. "I was having a brilliant morning until you came in to sour the air."
"Ah, well. We are born to suffer.
Elizabeth Camden
#97. It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'
Gabriel Byrne
#98. Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
Saint John Chrysostom
#99. We die with the dying;
See, they depart, and we go with them.
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them.
T. S. Eliot
#100. Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
Ajahn Chah
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