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Quotes About Breath

Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.
~ Jon Gordon
Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Posle toga bismo na koji trenutak zaspali i, utapaju?i se u svoju ljubav, bili bismo dva uporna ronioca koja izlaze na površinu vode samo da udahnu vazduh.
~ Alexandre Dumas
She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
~ Alice Hoffman
Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Temple, so that we inhaled that which was meant to stand through eternity.
~ Alice Hoffman
I signaled for him to lean down, and he did so. I then did the second most terrible thing a mother could do, in some ways worse than burying her beneath the stones. I breathed my daughter's last breath into his mouth. I gave her to him so that her spirit would belong to him and he could carry her with him, so that he could still be a man with a soul, even though he had lost everything else.
~ Alice Hoffman
My breath came out in a fog and rose into the milky sky. Snow fell on my eyelashes, and all of Brooklyn turned white, a world in a globe. Every snowflake that I caught was a miracle unlike any other.
~ Alice Hoffman
He knew that attachments were for the living, and so he did the honorable thing. He let her go. He leaned close so she would hear him say it was all right for her to leave him. They knew it was now; they could feel something shift the way it always did. Even Argus, who'd been whimpering, grew quiet. It was not a dream, but something more. She breathed out, and inside that one breath was every word that had been spoken, every step she had taken, everyone she had ever loved.
~ Alice Hoffman
her soul was in her mouth, ready to escape as a puff of air
~ Alice Hoffman
There was the doctor, looking through one of the windows beside the front door. He could see into the garden, but it was a vision that was cloudy and green. What was he seeing? Elinor's last breath, broken into a thousand molecules? Was that what he was breathing? Her essence, her self, the person he would miss every day, his worst patient, his nastiest neighbor, his most treasured friend.
~ Alice Hoffman
The cold wind made it difficult to breathe, as if it could snatch your next breath before you had time to swallow it, and
~ Alice McDermott
John Keane pressed his chest to the steering wheel as he put the key in the ignition, taking a deep breath as he did, hoping the change of movement would ease the growing pain. The
~ Alice McDermott
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.
~ Alice Miller
It was as if she had a murderous needle somewhere in her lungs, and by breathing carefully, she could avoid feeling it. But every once in a while she had to take a deep breath, and it was still there.
~ Alice Munro
That was like a hand clapped against Rose's chest, not to hurt, but astonish her, to take her breath away .
~ Alice Munro
Ruth, que quería que todos creyeran lo que ella sabía: que los muertos realmente nos hablan, que, en el aire que rodea a los vivos, los espíritus se mueven, se entremezclan y ríen con nosotros. Son el oxígeno que respiramos.
~ Alice Sebold
Try to breathe, he said, and for the first time the only thought in my head after an instruction like that wasn't Fuck you. I breathed.
~ Alice Sebold
Sometime I'll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I am not all now but a universe of skin and breath & changing thought and burning hand & softened heart in the old bed of my skin From this single birth reborn that I am to be so— My own Identity now nameless neither man nor dragon or God but the dreaming Me full of physical rays' tender red moons in my belly & Stars in my eyes circling And the Sun the Sun the Sun my visible father making my body visible thru my eyes!
~ Allen Ginsberg
Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), Lack of breath.
~ Aminatta Forna
It was busy in the tavern. Noisy with idle chatter and hot with wasted breath, the windows misted so the street outside became a sparkling blur. One of those places where rich young men gather to pretend to be poor young men, and vomit up whatever point of view they last heard.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks.
~ Joë Bousquet