It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.
One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.
For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.
Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.