Breathing Quotes - Page 13

• So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

  Laozi

  Strength, Balance, Weakness

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.

  Tennessee Williams

  Patience, Lonely, Hurt

  Tennessee Williams (2010). “Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Growth, Green, Limits

  "Remaking Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1989.

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• Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, World, Firsts

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “A Call to Prayer”, p.6, Editora Dracaena

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• Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation, Mind, Body

  Twitter post from Jun 09, 2015

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• My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

  Thomas Merton

  Gratitude, Writing, Simple

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• For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

  Mark Steyn

  Taken, Past, Museums

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• Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

  Thomas Harris

  Half, Faust, Mephistopheles

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• Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things.

  Terry Gilliam

  Stars, Hate, War

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Being called Black in America is the struggle to keep us moving and breathing over bloody water. Being a Nig**r or [Ni**a] without the context of history is like drowning in bloody water, dragging down those yet knowing to swim.

  Chuck D

  Struggle, Moving, Knowing

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• "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, War, Military

  "A Vindication of Natural Society". Book by Edmund Burke, 1756.

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• If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Hope

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• I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Thinking, Soul, Lacking

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• Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Buttons, Photographer

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• To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Warrior, Growth

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• Blue is the insides of something mysterious and lonely. I'd look at fish and birds, thinking the sky and water colored them. The first abyss is blue. An artist must go beyond the mercy of satin or water-from a gutty hue to that which is close to royal purple. All seasons and blossoms inbetween. Lavender. Theatrical and outrageous electric. Almost gray. True and false blue. Water and oil. The gas jet breathing in oblivion. The unstruck match. The blue of absence. The blue of deep presence. The insides of something perfect.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Lonely, Thinking, Artist

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• Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Want, Helping

  Iyanla Vanzant (2002). “Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Beg”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

  David Holmgren

  Ongoing, Earth, Care

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• I'm a singer, not a vocal stylist. My breathing is correct; my enunciation is precise. Because of that, I can sing anybody's music. Yet there are stylists whose technical skills are so underdeveloped they can sing only their own songs their own way. They might be remembered for their hits longer than I am. I'll probably be working longer than they are. I can sing whatever the times and the trends demand.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Song, Skills, Demand

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• I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Way, Likes, Lightning

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• The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.

  Rudy Rucker

  Lonely, Cutting, Simple

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• There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

  Gerard Houllier

  Football, Anfield, Forget

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• Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

  Joseph Pilates

  Lazy, Dying, Pilates

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• Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

  Joseph Pilates

  Lasts, Firsts

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• How to sustain the miracle
  Of being, that like a muted bell,
  Or like some ocean-breathing shell,
  Quivers, intense and still?

  Babette Deutsch

  Ocean, Miracle, Shells

  Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”

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