Birth Quote by John Keats

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

— Kevin Brockmeier

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the…

— Stephan Hoeller

“many is the time the poor fellows, just buttoning the necks of their clean frocks, are startled by the cry of "There she blows!"…

— Herman Melville

“Life is precarious and improbable, a flame in matter, easily snuffed out. Nature shows no regard for the individual spark, in this creature or…

— Scott Russell Sanders

Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply…

— Pema Chodron

“Like pearls that cannot be sprayed too much with perfume or warmed too much with smoke, left alone too much or touched too much,…

— Victoria Finlay

“It can be helpful to think of humanity like a pearl necklace. Each human being is a pearl with distinct characteristics, but underneath there…

— Gudjon Bergmann

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all…

— Natalie Goldberg

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

— Wallace Stegner

The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic…

— Michael Dowd

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

— Charles Spurgeon

“I have the pearl, though, secured in a parachute with the spile and the medicine at my waist. I hope it makes it back…

— Suzanne Collins