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Quotes About Breath

Breathing itself was considered the first language.
~ Ben Marcus
Her sigh was full of despair, but at the bottom of her lungs, at the depth of her breath's expulsion, there was also hope, waiting like sleep at the end of even the most torrid day.
~ Ben Okri
Each organ is related to an emotion, and the lungs are related to grief. When you clear your lungs, you eliminate grief and sadness.
~ Mandy Ingber
I noticed every time I felt overwhelmed, I would hold my breath. I had to learn to stop, relax, and take long deep breaths, and within seconds I would feel more clear and ready to deal with the situation in a more loving way.
~ Gisele Bundchen
Meditating is easier than most people think. Start by focusing and following your breath. The goal is not to eliminate thoughts entirely but to continually return to your breath. Taking this time to relax your mind can help sharpen your focus in other aspects of your work and allow you to work for longer periods of time.
~ Lewis Howes
Any time I'm having difficulty, I focus on the breath, on relaxed breathing.
~ Dean Potter
You release more toxins from the body through a deep exhale than you do from anything else.
~ Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.
~ William Standish Knowles
I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.
~ Sid Waddell
Our spiritual home is definitely the U.K., but we have such a breadth of influence, and America's a huge part of that, as I think it is for most bands.
~ Ted Dwane
I'm inspired by breath, by the human body - by so many things.
~ Savion Glover
There is always another breath in my breath, another thought in my thought, another possession in what I possess, a thousand things and a thousand beings implicated in my complications: every true thought is an aggression.
~ Gilles Deleuze
I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my skin. But it blared at me. Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.
~ Gillian Flynn
I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.
~ Graham Greene
If Anna passed by, it brought Lara a shudder of relief. Only then could Lara take a breath. A very deep one.
~ Gregg Olsen
In the physical disciplines of yoga, samadhi is reached by suspending the extremes of solar (pingala) and lunar (ida) mind. This state arises when the inner breath (prana) enters the central channel (sushumna). Then truth or deep reality suddenly flashes forth. Why
~ Gregor Maehle
Each breath was an angry little victory.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.
~ Gregory Maguire
However in the world did her skin come green? Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.
~ Gregory Maguire
I don't want to do worldly cinema: 'Hold your breath, this is art.'
~ Lynne Ramsay
During a panic attack, I remember that today is just today and that is all that it is. I take a deep breath in and I realize that in this moment I am fine and everything is okay. More importantly, I am reminded that my A.P.C. jeans are so perfectly worn in that they are appropriate for any season and I am suddenly at ease.
~ Max Greenfield
Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.
~ Roy Ayers
The inclusion of slope style in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.
~ Nick Goepper
To the extend that a man with the soul filleted out of him could be happy. Since the things he had wished for were no more, he wished for nothing. He breathed in and out. That was all.
~ Sebastian Barry