The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.
What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Life that crawled, life that slunk and crept and never closed its eyes. Life that burrowed and scurried, and life so still it was indistinguishable from the ivy stems on which it lay. Birth, life, and death - each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
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