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Quotes About Breath

Well, friends, nobody owns nothing in this world. Even your breath is just loaned to you.
~ Loretta Lynn
Be conscious of this unconscious prayer (of your breath), For She is the most holy place of pilgrimage. She wishes for you to enter this temple, Where each breath is adoration Of the infinite for the incarnate form.
~ Lorin Roche
In the twentieth century men everywhere like to breathe; and the Negro citizen still cannot, you see, breathe.
~ Lorraine Hansberry
The later-afternoon air of our exhalations hung in brief clouds before us. The thought balloon of my own breath said, How have I found myself here? It was not a theological question. It was one of transportation and neurology.
~ Lorrie Moore
He took several long, deep breaths. Then his head jerked violently, and he let out a shrill scream, worse than the one before.
~ Louis Sachar
I wish I had a horse; then I could run for miles in this splendid air, and not lose my breath.
~ Louisa May Alcott
As Beth had hoped, the tide went out easily and in the dark hour before the dawn on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Even the swift needle charmed him, the little brooch which rose and fell with her quiet breath, the plain work she did, and the tidy way she gathered her bits of thread into a tiny bag.
~ Louisa May Alcott
But after each new trial, brighter shone her magic flower, and sweeter grew its breath, while the spirits lost still more their power to tempt her.
~ Louisa May Alcott
This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.
~ Louise Erdrich
The Release In those last moments before the platter of salt and dirt lay on his stomach, wax-light had waved across a mute heart, his son waited by the bed. Raised to believe the soul left the body with its last breath, he listened for death's rattle, then pressed his lips like a kiss to his father's lips, and took into his mouth the breath that had given him breath, a life distilled to one stir of air soft as moth wings against palms, held a moment, then let go.
~ Ron Rash
Soul of Gerontius (Hereafter Soul) I went to sleep; and now I am refresh'd, A strange refreshment: for I feel in me An inexpressive lightness, and a sense Of freedom, as I were at length myself, And ne'er had been before. How still it is! I hear no more the busy beat of time, No, nor my fluttering breath, nor struggling pulse; Nor does one moment differ from the next. I had a dream; yes:—some one softly said He's gone; and then a sigh went round the room.
~ Saint John Henry Newman
A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
~ Salman Rushdie
I sigh therefore I am . . . In the beginning and unto the end was and is the lung: divine afflatus, baby's first yowl, shaped air of speech, staccato gusts of laughter, exalted airs of song, happy lover's groan, unhappy lover's lament, miser's whine, crone's croak, illness's stench, dying whisper, and beyond and beyond the airless, silent void. A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.
~ Salman Rushdie
Suspiro ergo sum.
~ Salman Rushdie
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~ Salman Rushdie
Very little strength can produce much motion of air. Learn about air as motion.
~ Arnold Jacobs
Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Find strength in your heartbeat, than weakness with a beat heart. Take each breath as another chance, and love for a new day.
~ Anthony Liccione
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
~ Etty Hillesum
Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.
~ Mary Davis
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.
~ Douglas Adams