Breathing Quotes - Page 37

• Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

  Willow Smith

  Heart, Order, Space

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

  Dogen

  Individual, Activity, Extensions

  25 Copy quote

• Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Art, Believe

  18 Copy quote

• The California cemeteries make dying sound so attractive it's a real effort to keep breathing.

  Jack Paar

  Funny, Real, California

  JACK PAAR (1960). “I KID YOU NOT”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Next

  4 Copy quote

• People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and everybody is breathing enlightenment. Forget it. Don't look at it through rose-colored glasses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Glasses, People

  5 Copy quote

• When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dark, Men, Air

  6 Copy quote

• I'm a living, breathing example of someone who does the same exact thing, but drugs and alcohol just aren't a part of who I am.

  CM Punk

  Who I Am, Alcohol, Drug

  "CM Punk talks Rock, Austin, 'WWE 12'". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. November 23, 2011.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.

  George Steinbrenner

  Winning, Guy, Cost

  "Top Of The Sixth" by Tom Fitzgerald, www.sfgate.com. September 19, 1996.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.397

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

  Donna Farhi

  Way, Inevitable Change, Metaphor

  Donna Farhi (1996). “The Breathing Book: Good Health and Vitality Through Essential Breath Work”, p.5, Macmillan

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a foundation, a basis of knowing that gives confidence to the ego. To reach its wisdom requires absolute concentration: dropping the mind into the body, breathing into whatever is ready to be
  released, and allowing the process of expression until the negative dammed up energy is out, making room for the positive energy, genuine Light, to flood in.

  Marion Woodman

  Light, Expression, Knowing

  "The Pregnant Virgin". Book by Marion Woodman, 1985.

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

  Donald Miller

  Lying, Reality, Games

  28 Copy quote

• In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.

  Chris Coons

  Real, Thinking, Rights

  4 Copy quote

• there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Sadness, Mean, Sorrow

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.

  Rose Macaulay

  Hate, Heart, Heaven

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.42, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I should die, think only this of me:
  That there's some corner of a foreign field
  That is forever England. There shall be
  In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
  A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
  Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
  A body of England's, breathing English air,
  Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

  Rupert Brooke

  Flower, Book, Home

  'The Soldier' (1914)

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Nature, Essence, Mind

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Vulgarity Is, Comfort, Moral

  6 Copy quote

• We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Clay, May, Moments

  William Jennings Bryan (1924). “William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution”, Facsimiles-Garl

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

  Robin Morgan

  Poetry, Way, World

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.375, Open Road Media

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

  Margaret Mead

  Loving You, Lovely, Effortless

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.105, Basic Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.

  Shana Alexander

  Marriage, Spiritual, Emotional

  4 Copy quote

• He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Food, Glasses, Air

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.27, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source