Birth Doulas Quotes & Sayings

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts. — Isaac Newton

You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things. — William Thurston

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable. — Norman Thomas

After living with his art in my own chamber, I saw there was more than mere mimicry, and that art was a world unto itself, with its own symbols and language. A leaf seen in a certain light might be gray or violet as well as purple, and a latticework of twigs might easily turn red as the sky paled above the city. — Alice Hoffman

East Germany may have been a giant penitentiary administrated by the Russians, the Stasi may have embodied the worst excesses of German authority and bureaucratic thoroughness, and anyone with brains and spirit may have fled the country before the Wall went up, but the inmates who'd remained behind to expiate the country's collective guilt had paradoxically been liberated from their Germanness (...) Humble, unpunctual, spontaneous, and generous with what little they had. (...) their real loyalties were to one other, not to the state. — Jonathan Franzen

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words. — Stephen Richards

In fact ants, to cite just one example, work unselfishly for the community; we humans sometimes do not look good by comparison. We are supposed to be higher beings, so we must act according to our higher selves. — Dalai Lama XIV

everything's just tickety-boo. — Andrea Frazer

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone. — William James