Breathe Quotes - Page 17

• As I holed up in the City of Angels, I was also aware of a comforting feeling of anonymity. In the world's biggest third-class city I could pass unnoticed. I spoke the language. I was familiar with the currency. I could drink the water. I could almost breathe the air, late April air, compounded of interesting hydrocarbons.

  John D. MacDonald

  Angel, Air, Class

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• There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Real, Italian

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• I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Writing, Class, People

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• When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Truth, Air, Lips

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• In the dark room where I began My mother's life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.

  John Masefield

  Mother, Dark, Men

  'C.L.M.' (1910)

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• There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Stars, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.16, Graphic Arts Books

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• Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Creativity, Oxygen, Needs

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• Do you want to know how spirituality works? Breathe.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Want, Spirituality, Know How

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• The essence of motherhood is not restricted to women who have given birth; it is a principle inherent in both women and men. It is an attitude of the mind. It is love - and that love is the very breath of life. No one would say, 'I will breathe only when I am with my family and friends; I won't breathe in front of my enemies.' Similarly, for those in whom motherhood has awakened, love and compassion for everyone are as much part of their being as breathing.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Attitude, Motherhood, Love Is

  Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma (2014). “The Awakening Of Universal Motherhood: Geneva Speech”, p.59, M A Center

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• I have long suspected that the power of speech is not a power at all, but a mere form of hysteria from which the living that really know the truth never suffer because they do not fear life or death as we do and can afford to be calm and silent. The frailest flower that blooms knows that it will rise from the dead in the next season's sun, breathe, feel again the dew and rain. Therefore these little ones make no such tragedy as we do of death.

  Corra May Harris

  Rain, Flower, Hysteria

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• Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

  Francois Arago

  Men, Air, Eagles

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• Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

  Maria Semple

  Fearless, Treasure, Surprise

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• In the wake of the current injustice we all need to remember to breathe, stay strong and know that God has a bigger plan. Through whatever Hold Ya Head.

  Teedra Moses

  Stay Strong, Needs, Injustice

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• I ... received a few hugs and dutiful pecks on the cheek at bedtime, even a couple of 'thank-yous' thrown in for good measure. But I'd truly love for someone to explain why the father of my children can simply walk into the house, put down his briefcase, grunt 'Hi kids - howyadoing,' and all four offspring nearly hyperventilate trying to be the first to get close to him. They are crazy about this man, and all he has to do is walk into a room and breathe.

  Becky Freeman

  Couple, Children, Father

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• Smile, breathe, relax and stay present.

  Robert Regis Dvorak

  Advice, Relax

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• Argument is to me the air I breathe.

  Gertrude Stein

  Air, Argument

  Written in 1895 as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College. Published as "Form and Intelligibility" in the Radcliffe Manuscripts, 1949.

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• Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

  Mary Jo Weaver

  Children, Home, Air

  Mary Jo Weaver (1993). “Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Enter upon thy paths, O year!
  Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread,
  Which lead the Living to the Dead,
  I enter; for it is my doom
  To tread thy labyrinthine gloom;
  To note who round me watch and wait;
  To love a few; perhaps to hate;
  And do all duties of my fate.

  Bryan Procter

  Hate, Fate, Years

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• Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by strong emotion, do we remember that it is our path? Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior. And when we can't practice when distracted but KNOW we can't, we are still training well. Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

  Pema Chodron

  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Power, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Civil Disobedience: Resistance to Civil Government”, p.26, The Floating Press

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• Adultery breathes new life into marriages which have been left for dead.

  Marcel Proust

  New Life, Adultery, Has Beens

  1923 A' la recherche du temps perdu,'La Prisonnie' re'.

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• Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Freedom, Heart

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• To breathe, we do not only need air and lungs, but also freedom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Air, Needs

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• I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs, the people who live, breathe and love football.

  Sepp Blatter

  Love, Football, Player

  "Sepp Blatter: The Tyrant is toppled! FBI investigators hot on resigning FIFA president's trail after he announces shock exit". www.dailymail.co.uk. June 2, 2015.

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• The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

  Chief Seattle

  Men, Air, White Man

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