Breathing Life Quotes

• If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

  Amit Ray

  Stress, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2015). “Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath”, p.7, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Beautify your breath - beautify your life.

  Amit Ray

  Breaths

  Amit Ray (2015). “Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath”, p.17, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Good Morning, Dream

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge

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• By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love - the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Mean, Sea, Breathing

  Katherine Mansfield (1956). “Stories. Selected,”

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• Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth,
  like an empty cradle waiting to be filled.
  And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth,
  like a mother breathing life into her child.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Mother, Morning, Children

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• The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.

  Florence King

  Marriage, Sleep, Breathing

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• I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

  Linda Conrad

  Dream, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Memories, Angel, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (1892). “Joan of Arc: And Other Selections from Thomas De Quincey. Joan of Arc. The English mail coach (abridged).. Levana and our ladies of sorrow. Dinner, real and reputed (abridged).. I.. II.. III.. IV.”

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• By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Mean, Sea, Breathing

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• I'm the kind of developer who likes to throw lightning rods around. To make a great program there's got to be at least one person at the center who is breathing life into it. In a ferocious way.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Breathing, Way, Likes

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• I sell a complete package... a life style that's in harmony with and exemplified by the exterior and interior living space. I'm obsessive about the way I live and work, so when it comes to renovating, I believe in finding the true integrity of a house, then breathing life back into it in a way that connects with a certain type of buyer.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Integrity, Believe, Breathing

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• I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.

  Stephen Fry

  Baby, Sorry, Tubing

  Stephen Fry (1997). “Moab is My Washpot”, Random House (UK)

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• I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

  Jenny Valentine

  Breathing, Rooms

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• Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Breathing, Voting, Abstract

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 28, 2012

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• Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Thinking, Breathing, Rivers

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