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• For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

  Adam Duritz

  Mean, Writing Songs, Fantastic

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• Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

  Colin Davis

  Piano, Singing, Conducting

  "Sir Colin Davis obituary" by David Nice, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2013.

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• In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Small Changes, Order, Differences

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• The activity of both sets of muscles, the diaphragm and the abdominal muscles, varies reciprocally. Thus, during inspiration the tonus of the diaphragm increases while that of the abdominal muscles decreases, and vice-versa during expiration. Hence there exists between these two muscle groups a floating equilibrium constantly shifting in both directions.

  Dave Gorman

  Inspiration, Two, Vices

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• Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

  William E. Simon

  Love, Freedom, Ephemeral

  William E. Simon (1979). “Time for Truth”, Berkley

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• For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Movie, People, Necks

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• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Soul And Body

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• Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Heart, Walking Away, Body

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• I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

  Ron Perlman

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Thankfulness

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• Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

  Luce Irigaray

  Taking Charge

  Luce Irigaray, Stephen Pluhácek (2003). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.66, Columbia University Press

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• Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

  Nhat Hanh

  Understanding, Development, Awareness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Breathe, You Are Alive!”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smoldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment, Moscow is less than twenty miles away. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Passion, Ambition, Fire

  "Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir".

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• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

  John Keats

  Love, Life, Beauty

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Fire, Wind, Practice

  B.K.S Iyengar (2001). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works”, p.47, Allied Publishers

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• To one who has been long in city pent, ’Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, — to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament.

  John Keats

  Sweet, Nature, Prayer

  "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent" l. 1 (1817)

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• I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.

  Angus Wilson

  Morning, Air, White

  Angus Wilson (2015). “The Old Men at the Zoo”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• I learned that you should breath it in, breath your life in and enjoy it. Always be optimistic and be nice to people, open to people. Follow your dreams but make sure that you know what your dreams are. If you find something really great, don’t screw it up, don’t mess it up but hang on to it. You never know how and when it ends

  Stana Katic

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

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• I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

  Keren Ann

  Travel, Air, Metaphoric

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• What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Purpose, Modest

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To live is not breathing it is action.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Action

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• I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

  Paul Auster

  Paris, America, Rooms

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• Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Thinking, Rivers, Yellowstone

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• I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

  Tony Campolo

  Israel, People, Justice

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• A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Kindness, Independence, Spirit

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.148

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• War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Crazy, Military, War

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