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Quotes About Breath

Everything began with a single breath. A light wind that started a sway, and the sway started a turn, and the turn... The turn started everything.
~ Jim McCann
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech–every now and then she stops to breathe.
~ Jimmy Durante
However, let the reader understand that with God, at least as long as there is breath, it is never
~ Jimmy Swaggart
Two or three times today, take a deep breath and enter the moment with mindful awareness.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Control of breath is the cornerstone for health and for letting go of our small mind and entering the Big Mind of God.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Awareness of breath is the cornerstone for developing control of the bodymind.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
I have to find myself A place where I can breathe. That's where poetry lives In the oldest part of us.
~ Joan London
Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.
~ Joan Lowery Nixon
Dark summer grass. Lightning bugs in their slow flashing. The night above you was more in you than your breath, the stars always shifting in your chest. from "Night Sky
~ Joanna Klink
The great open secret of gratitude is that it is not dependent on external circumstance. It's like a setting or channel that we can switch to at any moment, no matter what's going on around us. It helps us connect to our basic right to be here, like the breath does.
~ Joanna Macy
Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, stated: Rise early in the morning to greet the sun. Inhale and let yourself soar to the ends of the universe; breathe out and let the cosmos inside. Next breathe up the fe- cundity and vibrance of the Earth. Blend the breath of Earth with your own and become the breath of life it- self. Your mind and body will be gladdened, depression and heartache will dissipate and you will be filled with gratitude.5
~ Ann Llewellyn Evans
It felt like a piece of punctuation in a run-on sentence.
~ Ann Napolitano
The sky, as if taking a breath, lightens.
~ Ann Napolitano
I consider the luck of simply being born, of being plucked out of the cosmos and bestowed with eyes to see, and nerves to feel, and ears to hear. Our senses. Our speech. Our breath. How crucial and insistent our ceaseless moving lungs from our first cry to our last.
~ Ann Pearlman
És o meu sopro, a minha vida, o meu coração
~ Anne Bishop
They both took a couple of unsteady breaths before Daemon said, "The sooner we make our reports, the sooner we can go home." For him, home wasn't a place, it was a person—and right then, he needed to know that Jaenelle was safe.
~ Anne Bishop
And it is this search for meaning that keeps us from living in fear. The key to a healthy life is not to be alone, to breathe the same air with others, to share the sensation of living through moments together.
~ Anne Bogart
A cold ship moves out of harbor somewhere way inside the wife and slides off toward the flat gray horizon, not a bird not a breath in sight.
~ Anne Carson
WHEN HE IS there they list the stones together. The stones are her lungs.
~ Anne Carson
WHEN HE IS there they lift the stones together. The stones are her lungs.
~ Anne Carson
This sufficed: the overwhelming monument to the man who had not feared the poverty and grandeur of the steppe, so alien to all human measure. I breathed deep and tried, despite all, to salute life...
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
All life is rhythmic. From the rise and fall of the sun to the rise and fall of our breath, from the beating of our heart to the infinite vibrations of atomic particles within our cells, we are a mass of vibrations that miraculously resonate together as a single system.
~ Anodea Judith
All life is rhythmic. From the rise and fall of the sun to the rise and fall of our breath, from the beating of our heart to the infinite vibrations of atomic particles within our cells, we are a mass of vibrations that miraculously resonate together as a single system. In fact, our ability to function as a unified whole depends upon the coherent resonance of the many subtle vibrations within us. The task of the fifth chakra is to enhance this resonance.
~ Anodea Judith
With classical singing you have to put out so much air - you project, you emit force.
~ Renee Fleming