Breathing Quotes - Page 21

• My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Cancer, Three

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

  Criss Jami

  Ambition, New Beginnings, Eye

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.82, Criss Jami

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Breathing can and should bring you into a ready-to-act condition instantly.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Should, Ready, Conditions

  4 Copy quote

• Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

  Wes Nisker

  Fall, History, Empires

  9 Copy quote

• What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

  David Wilcock

  Healing, Everyday, Looks

  19 Copy quote

• I would like you to show me, if you can, where the line can be drawn between an organism and it's environment. The environment is in you. It's passing through you. You're breathing it in and out. You and every other creature.

  Wendell Berry

  Lines, Environment, Like You

  4 Copy quote

• It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

  Jerry Adler

  Earth, Problem, Morbid

  8 Copy quote

• Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.

  Donna Farhi

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

  40 Copy quote

• A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.

  Aaron Hoopes

  Peace, Stress, Simple

  4 Copy quote

• We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.

  Sue Thoele

  Butterfly, Eye, Reflection

  Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind”, p.137, Conari Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How do you deal with meditating when you stop breathing? The trick is to meditate just a little higher and you won't even know that you're not breathing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Tricks, Deals

  4 Copy quote

• I have always used the burqa because men are using the burqa in the name of culture and religion to take freedom from women. Women are alive, they have their own wishes and desires, but all the time they have to sacrifice that. They are a kind of skeleton, which doesn't have muscles. They're just breathing, like a kind of puppet that barely exists. If women spoke for their rights, they were beaten by their husbands. So they don't have a voice. They lose their voices and their wishes and their happiness.

  Malina Suliman

  Husband, Sacrifice, Men

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.

  Nathan Fillion

  Character, People, Moments

  "Nathan Fillion Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 19, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, People, Hollywood

  "Stardust - Matthew Vaughn and Neil Gaiman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Moving, Heart, Sleep

  8 Copy quote

• The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible agents and innocent germ carriers, by the most varied forms of contact, or simply by breathing the common air.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Epidemics, Air

  4 Copy quote

• The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

  Henry Vaughan

  Christmas, Light, Sun

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.119

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

  Nelly Sachs

  Sleep, Men, Fire

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.

  Emily Carr

  Mean, Oneness, Space

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

  John Edward

  Deep Breathing, Hands, Meditation

  4 Copy quote

• Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

  Seth Godin

  Teamwork, Stories, World

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.202, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

  Barry Long

  Men, Desire, Body

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

  Bear Bryant

  Children, Kissing, Men

  7 Copy quote

• Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
  Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves
  First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
  Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
  These, as successive generations bloom,
  New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume;
  Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
  And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Spring, Ocean, Moving

  17 Copy quote

• Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Ideas, White

  "The Rides of Passage". "Via" magazine, July 2005.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source