Breathing Quotes - Page 28

• I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

  Elsa Barker

  Kings, Women, Garden

  Elsa Barker, “The Mystic Rose”

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• A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Animal, Light, Wind

  Gretel Ehrlich (2017). “Islands, the Universe, Home: Essays”, p.84, Open Road Media

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• Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

  John O'Hara

  Lying, Book, Sleep

  John O'Hara (2013). “Appointment in Samarra: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.15, Penguin

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• A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as a sweet song, from morning until evening. It may become a liturgy of prayer in which the soul shall voice its deepest needs and hungers-amid toils, struggles, and cares. It may be a guide through perplexing tangles, Gods voice whispering cheer, a comforter breathing peace in sorrow.

  J.R. Miller

  Sweet, Song, Morning

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• [On the desert:] The wind was a constant, and when you paid attention, it seemed like the earth's own breathing.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wind, Desert, Attention

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.186, Vintage

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• Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die.

  Jerry Smith

  Safety, Dies, Ifs

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  Sit and be still
  until in the time
  of no rain you hear
  beneath the dry wind's
  commotion in the trees
  the sound of flowing
  water among the rocks,
  a stream unheard before,
  and you are where
  breathing is prayer.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Rain, Rocks

  "Given". Book by Wendell Berry, 2005.

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• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breath in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder-they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when we're breathing in. The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other.

  Li-Young Lee

  Thinking, Oxygen, Blood

  "The Totality of Causes". Interview with Tina Chang, www.poets.org. February 21, 2014.

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• In more simple words, we might say everything in the universe is trying to become every other thing; and every condition of everything is trying to become every other condition. A hot iron, for example, will strive to become as cool as its environment, and the cool environment will strive to become as hot as the hot iron. They compromise and find an equilibrium between the two, which is neither the one thing nor the other. This conspicuous fact is one of the most characteristic traits of Nature.

  Walter Russell

  Simple, Two, Iron

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• It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Caring, Thinking

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• The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

  Laozi

  World, Stuff, Rooms

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• Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.

  Denise Levertov

  Eye, Past, Echoes

  Denise Levertov (1998). “Sands of the Well”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

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• In all serious disease states we find a concomitant low oxygen state... Low oxygen in the body tissues is a sure indicator for disease...Hypoxia, or lack of oxygen in the tissues, is the fundamental cause for all degenerative disease. Oxygen is the source of life to all cells.

  Stephen Levine

  Cells, Oxygen, Fundamentals

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• Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Praise, Intimacy

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• Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life is fed, nourished, by prayer and is expressed outwardly through mission: inhaling and exhaling. When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the fresh air of the Holy Spirit.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Prayer, Air

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• When exhaling this air, we announced Jesus Christ risen by the same Spirit. No one can live without breathing. It is the same for the Christian: without praise and mission there is not Christian life. And with praise, worship. We rarely speak about worship. What do we do when we pray? We ask things of God, we give thanks. But worshipping and adoring God is part of breathing - praise and worship.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Air

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• I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Kissing, Air

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Tempest”, p.130, Penguin

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• Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

  Rumi

  Christian, Buddhist, Ocean

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• I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Writing, Long

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• When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Gratitude, Body, Moments

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• Husbands and wives should have separate interests, cultivate different sets of friends and not impose on the other... You can't spend a lifetime breathing down each other's necks... We are very, very different people and yet somehow we fed off those varied differences and instead of separating us, it has made the whole bond a lot stronger.

  Paul Newman

  Husband, Should Have, Differences

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Example, Within You, Highest

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.353, Penguin

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• We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Real, Community, Life Is

  "What Oprah Knows For Sure About Finding Your Calling" By Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• A company is an organic, living, breathing thing, not just an income sheet and balance sheet. You have to lead it with that in mind.

  Carly Fiorina

  Mind, Balance, Income

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