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Quotes About Breath

The breathing of the wise person comes from their heels, while most people breathe only from their throats.
~ Zhuangzi
Hope is the thread between life and death, as long as hope is alive, we take breath.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
A voice was whispering to her. "Breathe, breathe, breathe," it kept urging. A warm body was over hers, pressed against her. Someone bigger than she was, stronger, a powerful life force. A mouth on hers, warm lips, lips she didn't want to leave hers.
~ Deborah Blumenthal
What is a sigh? That would be another good subject for a field study. Is it just a long, deep, audible exhalation of breath? Rose's sigh was intense but not subdued. It was frustrated but not yet sad. A sigh resets the respiratory system so it was possible that my mother had been holding her breath, which suggests she was more nervous than she appeared to be. A sigh is an emotional response to being set a difficult task.
~ Deborah Levy
Her sad girl breath makes me dizzy.
~ Deborah Levy
Beautiful breath beautiful breath beautiful breath. I loved every part of her.
~ Deborah Levy
With every inhalation, I take. With every exhalation, I give. How grand it is not to buy, sell, hold, or hoard breath. Would that it were so with money. Enjoy breathing while you can, for unless something changes, it won't be long until government awards ownership of the atmosphere to some commercial corporation to price and meter out as they please.
~ Dee Hock
I think we'd better go." Her breath fluttered the folds along the front of her bodice. A subtle scent of summer berries teased his nose. "Aren't you the least bit curious?" "Yes," she whispered. Bending his elbows, he leaned down. She placed her fingers against his lips. "I think we'd better go." Stopping his descent, he took the end of her finger into his mouth and grazed it with his teeth, then kissed it.
~ Deeanne Gist
And what is breath? It is the carbon dioxide and oxygen that come from the metabolism of every cell in that stranger's body. That is what you are inhaling, just as other people are inhaling your breath. So we are all constantly exchanging bits of ourselves—physical, measurable molecules from our bodies.
~ Deepak Chopra
In the beginning, There was neither existence nor nonexistence, All this world was unmanifest energy … The One breathed, without breath, by Its own power Nothing else was there.… RIG-VEDA In modern terms, this verse tells us that God can only be found in a virtual state, where all energy is stored before creation.
~ Deepak Chopra
To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
The world is not with us enough O taste and see the subway Bible poster said, meaning The Lord, meaning if anything all that lives to the imagination's tongue, grief, mercy, language, tangerine, weather, to breathe them, bite, savor, chew, swallow, transform into our flesh our deaths, crossing the street, plum, quince, living in the orchard and being hungry, and plucking the fruit.
~ Denise Levertov
Shouldn't there be some kind of relationship between how much a baby eats and how much comes out the other end? It's like at the circus, where they've got the tiny VW bug but the clowns just keep coming out and out and out. . . . Eventually you learn how to hold your breath like a Hokkaido pearl diver.
~ Dennis Miller
Hacer su vida más maravillosa al hacer cada momento vale la pena vivir, y la creación de cada momento que va a simplemente tomar el aliento. La vida no se mide por el número de respiraciones que usted toma, sino por los momentos que toman el aliento.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
La vie est jamais mesurée par le nombre de respirations que vous prenez, mais par le nombre de moments spéciaux que vous créez qui prennent le souffle.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Life is never measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of special moments you create that take the breath away.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Make your life most wonderful by making every moment worth living for, and creating special moments that'll simply take the breath away. Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of special moments you create that take the breath away.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
~ Hamza Yusuf
High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.
~ Andy Hargreaves
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
~ Adrian Frutiger
Life's not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.
~ George Strait
Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
~ Robert Frost
Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
~ Christy Turlington