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Quotes About Breath

The point is to savor and treasure every moment, every breath. They are precious because they are limited. Nothing in abundance is ever held dear. It's cast off without any thought whatsoever. But happiness, victory, and life are sacred because they are fleeting and stingily measured.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He struggled to breathe through the agony in his chest. The Fates were still mocking him. It must be a boring day for them up on Olympus.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.
~ Craig Stone
I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything.
~ Debbi Fields
I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.
~ DeLisha Milton-Jones
Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air.
~ Denise Levertov
For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.
~ Edwin Arnold
To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.
~ Nhat Hanh
If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
~ Peter Greenaway
Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.
~ Radhanath Swami
Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.
~ Rajneesh
If I have to hold a note for a long time, I imagine it as moving and spinning, for the note has to have life. In a way, a singer actually refreshes a note with every beat that it's held.
~ Renee Fleming
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.
~ Ruth Benedict
Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Our breath is connected to the air that every being breathes. By breathing consciously, we acknowledge our communion with all of life.
~ Sharon Gannon
Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Between a gasp and a sigh, a life can change forever.
~ Tim Lebbon
Gasping for breath, the body still battling for life.
~ Truman Capote
As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works.
~ Joseph Hall
We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.
~ Luis Medina
Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
~ Marianne Williamson
Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe.
~ Mary E. Pearson
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
~ John F. Kennedy
In the baby's room The city lights are Milky In the curtains… Breath Gentle as rain, Sleep Quiet as snowflakes
~ john j geddes