Breathing Quotes - Page 39

• 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”

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.

  Jon Foreman

  Ocean, Surfing, Sound

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• I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.

  Yoko Ono

  Simple, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

  P. D. James

  Metaphysical, Speculation, Discussion

  P. D. James (1984). “Trilogy of Death: Three Complete Novels”, Scribner Book Company

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• The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

  Mark Twain

  Luck, Desert, Want

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• So absolute, it is
  no other than
  happiness itself, a breathing
  too quiet to hear.

  Denise Levertov

  Happiness, Quiet, Absolutes

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• Do you mistake me?
  I am speaking of living,
  of moving from one moment into
  the next, and into the
  one after, breathing
  death in the spring air.

  Denise Levertov

  Life, Spring, Mistake

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play,
  A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
  Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Play, Delay

  Edmund Spenser (1957). “Minor poems”

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• Let us lie down once more by the breathing side
  Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep
  As if the Known Sea still were a month wide--
  Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

  Allen Tate

  Lying, Ocean, Sleep

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.67, Macmillan

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• What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.

  Joseph Epstein

  Breathing Space, Aggravation, Absence

  Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

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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, Magazines

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• Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict

  Thinking, Deep Breathing, Shallow

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1920). “Practical Psychology”

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• Hip-hop as a culture itself goes through stages. It grows - it's breathing, living. I've noticed that we usually start off conscious, then we wind up very highly sexual, and then we thug it out. Then things get a little funny again, with comedy and that kind of thing.

  KRS-One

  Thug, Wind, Hip Hop

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Space, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe correctly. There is no single more powerful -or more simple- daily practice to further your health and well being than breathwork.

  Andrew Weil

  Powerful, Simple, Ill Health

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• I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Hiding Something, Noses, Chinatown

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• For Aliki Barnstone, poetry seems a natural medium. The vision and cadences of these poems suggest a sensibility for which poetry is as inevitable as breathing or eating.

  Robert Pinsky

  Vision, Cadence, Eating

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• As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.

  Gina Barreca

  Holiday, Kids, Passionate

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• Notwithstanding my grandmother's long and faithful service to her owners, not one of her children escaped the auction block. These God-breathing machines are no more, in the sight of their masters, than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Horse, Children, Block

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.16

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