Awareness Quotes

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

- Oscar Wilde

"I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it."

- Ernest Hemingway

"How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."

- Anthony Doerr

"Look, Charlie, let's face it. We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It's run by a big eastern syndicate, you know."

- Lucy van Pelt

"I think there must be something wrong with me, Charlie Brown. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel."

- Charlie Brown

"Isn’t there anyone who understands what Christmas is all about?"

- Charlie Brown

"Charlie Brown, you’re the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem."

- Lucy van Pelt

"Look, Charlie Brown, let’s face it. We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It’s run by a big Eastern syndicate, you know."

- Lucy van Pelt

"women's bodies have near-perfect knowledge of childbirth; it's when their brains get involved that things can go wrong."

- Peggy Vincent

"for far too many women pregnancy and birth is something that happens to them rather than something they set out consciously and joyfully to do themselves."

- Sheila Kitzinger

"So the question remains. Is childbirth painful? Yes. It can be, along with a thousand amazing sensations for which we have yet to find adequate language. Every birth is different, and every woman’s experience and telling of her story will be unique."

- Marcie Macari

"Birth matters. It brings us into being, on many levels."

- Ananda Lowe

"We must attempt to tell the whole truth about birth, the truth that includes the transformation, mastery, satisfaction, personal power and the difference between pain and suffering."

- Cheri van Hoover

"However much we know about birth in general, we know nothing about a particular birth. We must let it unfold with its own uniqueness."

- Elizabeth Noble

"Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So, also, pain is only pain unless we resist it, then it becomes torment."

- I Ching

"To speak of birth, to touch people’s hearts and souls and to awaken that part of humankind that has forgotten that it matters enormously how a baby comes into the world – that is our task."

- Vicki Chan and Nick Edmondstone

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

- Marie Curie

"Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment."

- the I Ching

"The effort to separate the physical experience of childbirth from the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of this event has served to disempower and violate women."

- Mary Rucklos Hampton

"Muscles send messages to each other. Clenched fists, a tight mouth, a furrowed brow, all send signals to the birth-passage muscles, the very ones that need to be loosened. Opening up to relax these upper-body parts relaxes the lower ones."

- William and Martha Sears

"My OB put it in perspective for me. He’s seen 1 uterine rupture in 29 years…and she had not previously had a c-section."

- Vanessa Spahan

"Just because society doesn't make a big deal about postpartum doesn't mean it isn't one."

- @hellopostpartum

"It can take a woman TWO whole years after birth to get back to feeling like themselves. And at least ONE year for their hormones to return to normal."

- @thisisanya

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. Happy Sunday."

- Buddha

"It seems that many health professionals involved in antenatal care have not realized that one of their roles should be to protect the emotional state of pregnant women."

- Michel Odent, MD

"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."

- Bruce Lee

"Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against."

- Bruce Lee

"Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: 'When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.'"

- Bruce Lee

"meconium happens."