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Quotes About Breath

When I was a kid, my aunt coached me a little bit for choir, and what she taught me actually stuck with me. She basically taught me to sing from my diaphragm and not from my throat.
~ Ed Kowalczyk
Whether you are aware of it or not, one half of your pulmonary system is hanging up there right now on a tree!
~ Sadhguru
Past events are already gone, and the future is yet to happen. It is only in the present that we can be in our life. The present is the joystick, controlling the moment, and thus the direction our life takes. Being with the breath is the most effective way of being in the present. It completely connects us with reality.
~ Sakyong Mipham
The breath is like the waves in the ocean that help circulate the water so that it does not become stagnant.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Taking your attention away from thoughts and placing it on the breath is the focus of meditation, which in this simple form is simply the process of being mindful of the breathing, being aware that you are thinking, and returning your attention to the breath.
~ Sakyong Mipham
Life is breath. Breath is life.
~ Sakyong Mipham
as if the words came not from her but from the breeze.
~ Sally Gardner
Our breath Caught like a needle On the skin of water You said "Will it be here?" "Here where the grass is so tall?" And I thought Yes Yes here
~ Sally Mann
Beneath this sodA poet lies, or that which once seemed he—Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S.T.C.!That he, who many a year, with toil of breath,Found death in life, may here find life in death.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
~ Sanskrit Proverb
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
~ Santoka Taneda
Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal
~ Sappho
Although only breath, words which I speak are immortal.
~ Sappho
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear.
~ Sappho
You might wish a little to be carried off Someone sweeter you also know forgot and would say yes I shall love [...] as long as there is breath in me and care I say I have been a strong lover hurt bitter and know this no matter I shall love
~ Sappho
Sadece Hava da olsa, ölümsüzdür dilimdeki sözcükler
~ Sappho
And with that memory, the anxiety snake struck so hard that it stunned Peter's breath out of him.
~ Sara Pennypacker
I'm not angry." But he forced his fists open and counted ten slow breaths, fighting it the way he always did. Because what if he was like his father, with that threatening kind of anger, the kind that was always simmering, the kind that could boil over at any time and hurt everyone in the way? The apologies afterward never healed the damage.
~ Sara Pennypacker
My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true
~ Sara Shepard
May Night" The spring is fresh and fearless And every leaf is new, The world is brimmed with moonlight, The lilac brimmed with dew. Here in the moving shadows I catch my breath and sing-- My heart is fresh and fearless And over-brimmed with spring.
~ Sara Teasdale
There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential - and then you can exhale.
~ Joan Halifax
I'm not planning a career change - not unless they need someone who constantly falls on the ice and is out of breath all the time.
~ Scott Wolf
You know it's time to start using mouthwash when your dentist leaves the room and sends in a canary.
~ Joan Rivers
Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.
~ Andrew Weil