Breathe Quotes - Page 10

• In all the practice centers in the tradition of Plum Village whenever the phone rings or the clock chimes in the dining hall, people stop everything they are doing and breathe consciously, releasing all thinking and any tension.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Thinking, Phones

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• On the path of love we don't feel we necessarily have control. In the yoga of love we feel it's only God who does everything. We can't breathe one breath without God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Doe, Path Of Love

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• Love has been stronger than the air you breathe.

  Jon Jones

  Love, Air, Stronger

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• I fear no man. If you breathe oxygen, I do not fear you.

  Conor McGregor

  Men, Oxygen, Mma

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• I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.

  Aleister Crowley

  Mother, Stars, Father

  "Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass". Book by Aleister Crowley, www.scarletwoman.org. 1913.

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• The air you breathe in a picture is not necessarily the same as the air out of doors.

  Edgar Degas

  Air, Doors

  "Degas: An Intimate Portrait" by Ambroise Vollard, translated by Randolph T. Weaver. Dover, (p. 47), 1986.

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• Cats can derive their nutrition from the air they breathe until you get the message that the Fish Fin Buffet you put in their bowl three days ago will never be acceptable.

  Kathy Young

  Cat, Air, Three

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• If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

  Bridget Riley

  Space, Games, Play

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• The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

  Laura Harris

  Growth, Pieces, Honest

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• Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.

  Homer

  Air, Toil, Weight

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.412

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• The careful rearer of the ductile human plant can instil his own religion, and surround the soul by such a moral atmosphere, as shall become to its latest day the air it breathes.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Air, Soul, Atmosphere

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.39

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• Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Men, Air

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Civilization, Cities

  Norman Mailer (1966). “Cannibals and Christians”, Dell, 1967

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• Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Morning, Fire, Oil

  Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.77, Island Press

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• We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

  Peter Weiss

  Ears, Favour

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.112, A&C Black

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• Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

  George Eliot

  Mirrors, Pulse, Done

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda”, p.792, George Eliot

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• We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eye, Heart, Yellow

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “Theory of Colours”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• Ye who amid this feverish world would wear A body free of pain, of cares a mind, Fly the rank city, shun its turbid air; Breathe not the chaos of eternal smoke And volatile corruption, from the dead, The dying, sickening, and the living world Exhal'd, to sully heaven's transparent dome With dim mortality.

  John Armstrong

  Pain, Air, Cities

  John Armstrong, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Armstrong and Johnson”, p.25

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• The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Book, Atmosphere, Planes

  Orison Swett Marden (1897). “Rising in the World: Or, Architects of Fate; a Book Designed to Inspire Youth to Character Building, Self-culture and Noble Achievement”

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• L'adulte'  re introduit l'esprit dans la lettre quebien souvent le mariage e u" t laisse  e morte. Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

  Marcel Proust

  New Life, Adultery, Has Beens

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• I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

  Charles Lamb

  Wall, Tired, Air

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.

  Alan Watts

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are" by Alan Watts, (p. 112), 1966.

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• The advantage of pure, and the disadvantage of impure air are experienced each time we breathe, and all who understand the causes of disease know that an impure atmosphere is most unfavourable to the enjoyment of health, and an efficient cause to shorten human existence within the natural life of man. It is therefore most desirable that decisive measures should be devised and generally adopted to ensure to all a pure atmosphere, in which to live during their lives.

  Robert Owen

  Men, Air, Atmosphere

  "The Book of the New Moral World, Vol. 3". Book by Robert Owen, 1836-1844.

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• Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Roots, Mind, Caves

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.

  Edie Falco

  Important, Ensemble, Actors

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