Breathe Quotes - Page 37

• This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

  Barack Obama

  Yes We Can, People, Doubt

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Girl, Real, Boys

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe.

  Mick Ebeling

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Sleep, Army

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• I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.

  Kanye West

  Rocks, Elements, Taste

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• I don't think I can breathe now with you gone.

  Heather Nova

  Broken Heart, Thinking, Gone

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• It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

  Andrea Gibson

  Rain, Heart, Angel

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• There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas

  Beautiful, Our World, Air

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• Culture is like a smog. To live
  within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
  contaminated.

  Richard K. Morgan

  Culture, Smog

  Richard K. Morgan (2003). “Altered Carbon”, p.150, Del Rey

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• What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

  Peter Viereck

  Air, Oxygen, Stopping

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• You got one life, never use it just to breathe.

  Kristen Ashley

  Use

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• Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.

  Ansel Adams

  Beautiful, Quality, Sun

  Ansel Adams, Karen E. Haas, Rebecca A. Senf (2005). “Ansel Adams: in the Lane Collection”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• This is not a game, ... Debt has become a part of who we are. It's become that spoiled child in the grocery store with their lip stuck out: 'I want it. I want it. I deserve it because I breathe air.' And, well, that's an uphill climb in our culture right now, to go against that and say, 'Hey, let's be grownups here. Let's be mature, learn to delay pleasure, save up and pay for things.'

  Dave Ramsey

  Children, Air, Games

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• All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.

  Dani Shapiro

  Kissing, Joy, Moments

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• Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.

  Roy Ayers

  Beautiful, Heart, Love Life

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• Breathes there a man with hide so tough
  Who says two sexes aren't enough?

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Sex, Men, Two

  Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

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• Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.

  Janet Jackson

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Moving

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• High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Air

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• I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.

  Kerri Walsh

  Volleyball, Sleep, Kids

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• By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision. The most difficult things that come to us are to our advantage from God's side. When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Grace, Goes On, Want

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.470, Whitaker House

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• Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own

  Elizabeth Grosz

  Art, Gains, Chaos

  Elizabeth Grosz (2012). “Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth”, p.16, Columbia University Press

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• The leader feels the pulse of a burning passion and communicates that heat at every opportunity. He or she lives the dream, breathes the vision, sleeps the mission, and eats the goals every day. The leader shares those goals all the time with everyone. It is a vibration the entire organization can feel.

  Phil Pringle

  Dream, Passion, Sleep

  Phil Pringle (2010). “You The Leader”, p.28, Whitaker House

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• Whenever you feel threatened or afraid, you should place your hands over your third chakra, right in the middle of your stomach, and breathe very deliberately and slowly until you feel calm. In doing so, you will actually begin to feel stronger and more protected. Breath gives us life and it is the source of our power.

  Sonia Choquette

  Hands, Giving, Over You

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Feb 11, 2013

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