Breathing Quotes - Page 40

• 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

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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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• Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth,
  like an empty cradle waiting to be filled.
  And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth,
  like a mother breathing life into her child.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Mother, Morning, Children

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• The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Goes On, Spirit

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Simple, Your Side

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• Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Future, Heart

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• Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Flower, Anger, Walking Meditation

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• When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

  Nhat Hanh

  May, Return, Apologizing

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happy, Beautiful, Song

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.59, Penguin

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