Breathing Quotes - Page 15

• The day nothing turns you on - you're dead. No matter how many more years you go on breathing.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Years, Goes On, Matter

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• Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Drinking, Skills, Luxury

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

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• If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Second Chance, Stills

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• In the afternoon they came unto a land
  In which it seemed always afternoon.
  All round the coast the languid air did swoon,
  Breathing like one that hath a weary dream.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dream, Air, Land

  1832 Poems,'The Lotos - Eaters', l.1-6.

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• Thou has left behind Powers that will work for thee,-air, earth, and skies! There 's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Men, Air

  "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" l. 8 (1807)

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• Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fire, Catholic, Devil

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• I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of the koan, this one is not different from myself. I know this mountain because I am this mountain, I can feel it breathing at this moment, as its grass tops stray against the snows. If the snow leopard should leap from the rock above and manifest itself before me - S-A-A-O! - then in that moment of pure fright, out of my wits, I might truly perceive it, and be free.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Time, Nature, Rocks

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.89, Shambhala Publications

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• I try to think about positive things - how great my form is, how my arms are swinging, my breathing, how loud people are cheering. My sports psychologist taught me there are a million things telling you you can't keep going, but if you find the things that say you can, you're golden.

  Kara Goucher

  Sports, Cheer, Thinking

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• As long as a person is breathing, there is hope for them.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Long, There Is Hope, Persons

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• You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  Bruce Aidells

  Humorous, Drinking, Nursing

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• Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Soul, Bumps, Wakes You

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• When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.

  Helen Schucman

  Summer, Learning, Effort

  Helen Schucman, Scribe (2008). “A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume”, p.280, Foundation for Inner Peace

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• What helped me was working with my breathing, specifically, using my breathing to stay sharp and focused under pressure and then cool and calm when the pressure was relieved.

  Glen Hanlon

  Hockey, Focus, Pressure

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• In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Dancing, Ends

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• Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

  George Eliot

  Men, Hands, Most Romantic

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2733, Delphi Classics

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• This is perhaps the best feeling in the world. I love going to sleep at night and wondering what weird and wonderful dreams I'm going to have however I always prolong sleep as long as possible, immeasurably happy simply listening to the sound of my fiancees breathing and feeling his arms around me. It's when you fall in love with these little things that you know you're truly in love.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Falling In Love, Sleep

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• I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.

  Sandra Thomas

  Love, Girlfriend, Passion

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• The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Growth, Quests, Persons

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• The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Self, Genius

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.313, e-artnow

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• The feeling of it to my lungs was not sensibly different from that of common air; but I fancied that my breast felt peculiarly light and easy for some time afterwards. Who can tell but that, in time, this pure air may become a fashionable article in luxury. Hitherto only two mice and myself have had the privilege of breathing it.

  Joseph Priestley

  Science, Light, Air

  Joseph Priestley (1775). “Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air: Vol. II. By Joseph Priestley, ...”, p.102

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• Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

  David Whyte

  Ocean, Feet, Atmosphere

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• Everything in Louisiana is about layers. There are layers of race, layers of class, layers of survival, layers of death, and layers of rebirth. To live with these layers is to be a true Louisianian. This state has a depth that is simultaneously beyond words and yet as natural as breathing. How can a place be both other-worldly and completely pedestrian is beyond me; however, Louisiana manages to do it. Louisiana is spooky that way.

  Don Lemon

  Race, Class, Survival

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• Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.

  Alex Flinn

  Kids, Men, Trying

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• In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.

  Dana Spiotta

  Writing, Order, Way

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• Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.

  Judith Orloff

  Moving, Anxiety, Let It Go

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