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Quotes About Breath

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I am glad that it did, because I owe my existence to that fact. All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe. And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
~ Ted Chiang
The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I am glad that it did, because I owe my existence to that fact. All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe. And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on. So
~ Ted Chiang
We live very busy lives. But everyone has a spare minute.
~ Nuseir Yassin
I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.
~ Lesley Garrett
What you hear is southern Michigan, not a drawl, but a halting kind of speech where you leave spaces when there shouldn't be any. We take a breath anywhere.
~ Tom Bodett
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
~ Al Gore
When your chest is open, and you're breathing deeply, it lifts your spirits.
~ Mandy Ingber
The more I get connected to my own breath and my own yogic experience and my own prayer and my own idea, the ideas that have existed for so long - that we all belong to each other and we could live a deeper spiritual existence - the more I get connected to that, the more I shun this world.
~ Giancarlo Esposito
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
~ Jimmy Durante
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.
~ Rumi
I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.
~ Elvis Costello
For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.
~ King James I
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
~ Philip James Bailey
Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils.
~ Isaiah
Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
There's great stuff in there. There's a disease called Ondine's Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think "breathe, breathe" all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die.
~ Ned Vizzini
That means some of the air you just breathed passed through the lungs of Napoleon, Beethoven, Lincoln, and Billy the Kid.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
single breathful draws in more air molecules than there are breathfuls of air in Earth's entire atmosphere. That means some of the air you just breathed passed through the lungs of Napoleon, Beethoven, Lincoln
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I breathe deeply, taking in the fresh spring air. Though Beaufort has changed and I have changed, the air itself has not. It's still the air of my childhood, the air of my seventeenth year, and when I finally exhale, I'm fifty-seven once more. But this is okay. I smile slightly, looking towards the sky, knowing there's one thing I haven't told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Un hombre que se ahoga no puede saber cuál fue la gota de agua que detuvo con su último aliento.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Geen drenkeling zal ooit weten welke waterdruppel hem zijn laatste adem benam...
~ Nicholas Sparks
Breathe through your movements.
~ Patricia McBride
Mentally focus your attention on the part of you that needs healing. Now slowly take a deep breath, slowly filling your lungs to capacity while you send the oxygen to the part of you that needs healing. Now slowly breathe out, visualizing the ailing part being healed.
~ Chris Prentiss