Breathing Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

  Josh Gad

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

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• The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday we are breathing in and breathing out, but do we ever feel grateful to the air? If we do not drink water, we cannot survive. Even our body is composed to a large extent of water.But do we give any value to water? Every morning when we open our eyes, we see the sun blessingfully offering us light and life-energy, which we badly need. But are we grateful to the sun?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Gratitude, Morning, Grateful

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• I don't have any choice any more. I am in a choiceless awareness. I don't have to be aware. I am simply aware. Now it is just like my heartbeat or like my breathing. Even if I try not to be aware, it is not possible; the very effort will make me more aware. Awareness is not a quality, a characteristic; it is your whole being. When you become aware, there is no choice left to be otherwise.

  Rajneesh

  Choices, Effort, Trying

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• Walk, but make walking a meditation; walk knowingly Breathe, but let your breathing become a constant meditation; breathe knowingly. The breath going in: watch it. The breath going out: watch it. Eat, but eat with full awareness. Take a bite, chew it, but go on watching. Let the watcher be there in every moment, whatsoever you are doing.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Watches, Going Out

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• A second blow of many flowers appears, flowers faintly tinged and breathing no perfume; but fruits, not blossoms, form the woodland wreath that circles Autumn's brow.

  James Grahame

  Flower, Autumn, Blow

  Henry Kirke White, James Grahame (1856). “The poetical works of Henry Kirke White and James Grahame. With memoirs, diss. and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.247

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• Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.

  Carl Zimmer

  Communication, Heart, Brain

  Carl Zimmer (2014). “Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain--and How it Changed the World”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Encouraging, Encouragement, People

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• I love thee as I love the tone
  Of some soft-breathing flute
  Whose soul is wak'd for me alone,
  When all beside is mute.

  Eliza Acton

  Famous Love, Soul, Tone

  Eliza Acton (1826). “Poems”, p.110

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• Magic is not a practice. It is a living, breathing web of energy that, with our permission, can encase our every action.

  Dorothy Morrison

  Practice, Magic, Energy

  Dorothy Morrison (2012). “Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living”, p.14, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely limited. I began to call up memories of places, people, events, food-anything I could do to occupy my mind and remind myself that, even if I was being treated like an animal, I was still a living breathing human being.

  Shawn Thompson

  Memories, Loneliness, Mean

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• "Hope springs eternal in the human breast," and is as necessary to life as the act of breathing.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Life, Spring, Science

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• Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Hands, Feet

  'The Higher Pantheism' (1869)

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• The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

  Olivia Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Worry

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• A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.

  Zitkala-Sa

  Inspirational, Life, Sweet

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• We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

  T. S. Eliot

  Work, Book, Mind

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.84, Broadview Press

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• Go into a room where the shutters are always shut (in a sick-room or a bed-room there should never be shutters shut), and though the room be uninhabited-though the air has never been polluted by the breathing of human beings, you will observe a close, musty smell of corrupt air-of air unpurified by the effect of the sun's rays.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Science, Smell

  Florence Nightingale (1876). “Notes on Nursing for the labouring classes. With a chapter on Children”, p.68

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• I arise from dreams of thee
  In the first sweet sleep of night,
  when the winds are breathing low,
  and the stars are shining bright.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Sexy, Dream

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.299

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• With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this.

  Nhat Hanh

  War, Practice, Mindfulness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “For a Future to Be Possible: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Essence, Style

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• I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Mean, Numbers

  "Men of the Year: Graduate" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 11, 2007.

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• So instead of the Super Bowl, we've got the Stupor Bowl. Two once-proud teams, now 0-4 and stumbling through the season like zombies. And if you think the Cowboys are bad (and they are), the Redskins are so bad that every few plays you have to put a mirror under thieir noses to make sure they're still breathing.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Football, Team, Thinking

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• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Air, Cities, Two

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Creativity, my students learn, is as natural a function of the mind as breathing or digestion are natural functions of the body.

  John Kao

  Creativity, Thinking, Mind

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