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Quotes About Breath

One day you will be able to breathe again, not everyday but a little more often.
~ Janice Sherron
Breathe in the smell of exhaust and body odor, breathe out your health and sanity.
~ Jason Fried
Mrs Pungent McShark was a horrible soul, Her face resembled a squashed sausage roll, She was bitter and twisted, heartless and cruel, With breath that smelt worse than a septic cesspool.
~ Jason Hall
When you start the breathing, and the prana flow begins again after 13,000 years of not functioning, higher self may begin to take control of your life and purify it. By this, I mean that persons, places and things in your life that were blocking spiritual development will often leave you.
~ Drunvalo Melchizedek
I saw his breath beat quicker and quicker, pause, and then his little soul leapt like a star that travels in the night and left a world of darkness in its train
~ Du Bois W.E.B.
Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?
~ E.E. Cummings
Or when you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence. There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.
~ Eckhart Tolle
God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living creature." The German word for breathing – atmen – is derived from the ancient Indian (Sanskrit) word Atman, meaning the indwelling divine spirit or God within.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Glowing. The moon through a doorway. Breath hard in my throat. Heart full to burst. The moon through a doorway. And its light… Hope.
~ Edith Pattou
As she stood there, in her long sealskin coat, her hands thrust in a small round muff, her veil drawn down like a transparent mask to the tip of her nose, and the bunch of violets he had brought her stirring with her quickly-taken breath, it seemed incredible that this pure harmony of line and colour should ever suffer the stupid law of change.
~ Edith Wharton
Since then he had been walking with a ghost: the miserable ghost of his illusion. Only he had somehow vivified, coloured, substantiated it, by the force of his own great need – as a man might breathe a semblance of life into a dear drowned body that he cannot give up for dead.
~ Edith Wharton
There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears. But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them: the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight.
~ Edith Wharton
Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean: The world has grown grey from thy breath!
~ Edward Gibbon
THIS This is a moment to remember, this, our breaths still heavy, the smell of summer gentle through the window, the sound of the world, not even a distraction, the words 'I love you' unneeded.
~ Edward Lee
Que diga amor? Love? Hate? Speak to me of things the world has yet to truly understand, of the instant meaning of each bird's call, of a child's secret thoughts in her mother's womb, of the measured rhythmical time of every man and woman's breath, of the true colors of the inside of the moon, of the larger miracles in small things, the deeper mysteries.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Maybe we're all dying, one breath at a time.
~ Edwidge Danticat
To teach me that a lifetime can be vast as a hundred years or sudden as a few breaths? Enjoy this one you have left. It all passes so fast. In the time it takes to draw a breath.
~ Edwidge Danticat
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
~ Albert Camus
O heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath: guard them from all evil and let them sleep in peace.
~ Albert Schweitzer
At the height of happiness, I have spoken of a music never heard before. So what? If only I could in a continual state of ecstasy, shaping the body of the pome with my own, rescuing every phrase with my days and weeks, imbuing the poem with my breath while feeding letters of its every word into the offering in this ceremony of living.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Tu aliento se me fue haciendo costumbre, y ahora lo único que sé es que ya no podría vivir sin él; lo necesito junto a mí y para siempre, contra mi propia almohada. En tu casa o en la mía ¡qué importa! cualquiera de las dos puede ser la nuestra. Elige tú.
~ Alejandro Casona
That was longer than a heartbeat.
~ Alex Garland
We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.
~ Alexander Lowen
Restringiendo la respiración, el individuo neurótico reduce su energía y su vitalidad, y de esa forma logra mantener un control inconsciente sobre sus sentimientos, su ira, sus miedos y su tristeza. Como
~ Alexander Lowen