Breathing Quotes - Page 17

• Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
  than the breathing respect that you carry
  wherever you go right now?

  William Stafford

  World, Right Now

  William Stafford (1998). “The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• The voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers.

  Zitkala-Sa

  God, Sweet, Nature

  Zitkala-Sa (2014). “American Indian Stories”, p.109, Diderot Publishing

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• It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.

  Red Barber

  Baseball, Apples, Orange

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• Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Firsts, Spirit

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.126

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• The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

  Midge Decter

  Children, Hatred, Judgement

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• We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Heart, Thinking

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing... living proof there's a God if you need a reason.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Needs, Reason

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• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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• Blessings are the spiritual equivalent of breathing in, and prayer is the spiritual equivalent of breathing out.

  Thom Hartmann

  Spiritual, Prayer, Blessing

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• As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required.... It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Pain, Stress, Moving

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• Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me in the future, is a little quicker, so if I'm going (his rhythm/breathing), then my ghost runner, the vision of me, ahead of me, like opening up and just going for it, is quicker .

  Gabe Jennings

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Beautiful, Heart, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Apr 13, 2011

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• When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are heightens your awareness of exactly where you're stuck.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Pain, Helping Others

  "Good Medicine For This World". Discussion at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts, www.lionsroar.com. January 1, 1999.

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• For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

  Pablo Neruda

  Writing

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• So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

  William Shakespeare

  House, Way, Welcome

  William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Edmond Malone, Alexander Chalmers, Alexander Pope (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale”, p.87

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• You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Relationship, Nerves, Littles

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• Of men eternally dear! happy indeed
  If you have breathing-space
  From pain: blessed all the more
  If death should heal you of the pain you fear!

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Pain, Breathing Space, Ifs

  "Leopardi: Poems and Prose".

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• I'm a guy who gets more out of life than some people - more out of one big breath of fresh air than most people get from breathing in and out for a lifetime.

  Vince McMahon

  Air, People, Guy

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• As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.

  Gay Hendricks

  Letting Go, Health, Relax

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• I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!

  Dave Beard

  Years, Smoking, Safe

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• Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

  Homer

  Moving, Men, Doe

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.5156, Delphi Classics

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• He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

  Isaac Newton

  Time, Knowledge, Science

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• Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after...unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it.

  John Owen

  Long, Grace, Soul

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• I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides His secrets from me only to allure me graciously on to the unfolding of them.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Prayer, Science

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• Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

  Ajahn Chah

  Sleep, Meditation Practice, Sitting Down

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