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Quotes About Breath

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?
~ Rumi
If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
~ Ingrid Bergman
Taking the time to meditate is as important as taking the time to breathe. One pumps oxygen into the body, the other pumps peace into the mind.
~ Marianne Williamson
Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story
~ Esther Freud, Etchings
Perfect mind, the diamond mind, radiating all universes through your being, each pulse beat is the universe, each breath, eternity. Enlightenment, try it. You'll like it!
~ Frederick Lenz
This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.
~ Gary Paulsen
With every breath, I breathe in so much of inspiration. I feel if there is one thing as free and as important as oxygen, it's inspiration.
~ Sharad Vivek Sagar
[Home educator] take time during the holidays to catch your breath and enjoy homeschooling in a new, refreshing way (and to learn the value of bookmarks like I did.?)
~ Tamara L. Chilver
Only use the mind for practical ways in life. Use your deep inner body energy, observation and breath to glide through life.
~ Matthew Donnelly
Rejoice while you can breathe.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.
~ Shaun Hick
Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn't make sense now. I'm just going home.
~ Stacey Donovan, Dive
Looking for some peace? Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths....That inner connection and peace are always available to you, at any moment.
~ Nanette Mathews
Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.
~ Staci Backauskas
the breath of God, and then in turn exhaling onto others the breath of life they have received from their Creator. This is what our Messiah did as well. After His resurrection He appeared to His disciples, who were hiding for fear. He said, "As the Father has sent Me, I also send you" (John 20:21). Then Jesus breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit" (verse 22).
~ James W. Goll
The person who has the longest breath knows in the future what happened in the past
~ Jan Jansen
One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen.
~ Jane Hirshfield
those who follow their own breath will come to know both Being's nature and their own.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Free verse follows 'the breath of a thought where it leads'.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Meditation practice is not concerned with perfecting concentration, or getting rid of thoughts, or trying to be peaceful. The practice merely provides a space in which we can relate simply with our body, our breath and the environment. Thoughts simply occur within a larger space. In that simple situation, we bring our attention back again and again from fantasy to the simple reality of being in the present moment.
~ Jane Hope
passing bars belching beer breath through open doors
~ Jane Thynne
We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.
~ Jane Yolen
Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.
~ Jane Yolen
diaphragm, heavy and unassailable by digestive
~ Janet Burroway