“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic
Two Step
Crash (1996)
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
William Barclay (1907–1978) Church of Scotland minister and academic
George W. S. Trow (1943–2006) American writer
Within the Context of No Context (1980)
“Time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Dark Eyes
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…
On Communism, Thoughts of Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar https://books.google.com/books?id=6nolAQAAIAAJ, p. 107
From scratch to success, 2006-08-23 http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2001/06/08/stories/0908022a.htm,
“There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.”
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“There are two most powerful days in your life: the day you're born, and the day you discover why.”
Boniface Mwangi (1983) Kenyan photojournalist
The day I stood up alone
Context: There are two most powerful days in your life: the day you're born, and the day you discover why. That day standing up in that stadium shouting at the President, I discovered why I was truly born, that I would no longer be silent in the face of injustice.
“The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher
Source: The Poetics of Reverie
“Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.”
Jack Kerouac book Book of Sketches
Source: Book of Sketches