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Quotes About Breath

Because we never know whether our next breath may be our last, being prepared for the immediate unknown becomes as practical as applying for a passport while still uncertain of our destination or time of departure.
~ Stephen Levine
life is risk. All who inhabit the Earth inhale peril with each breath.
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Music blows lyrics up very quickly, and suddenly they become more than art. They become pompous and they become self-conscious ... I firmly believe that lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you not only have the music, but you've got costume, story, acting, orchestra. There's a lot to take in.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.
~ Steve Hagen
The audible signals people can produce are not a series of crisp beeps like on a touch-tone phone. Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.
~ Steven Pinker
Speech is a river of breath, bent into hisses and hums by the soft flesh of the mouth and throat.
~ Steven Pinker
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
~ Rumi
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger. May you never take one single breath for granted. God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.
~ Lee Ann Womack
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
~ Robert Southey
Love is all around you like the air, and is the very breath of your being.
~ Barry Long
Take time today to pause every now and then, take a deep breath of that moment, and know that God loves you. He will whisper "I love you" in a 1000 different ways.
~ Mark R. Woodward
The moment I remember to breathe and connect to what's real, connect to love, get grounded, get present, then everything has a way of sort of falling into place.
~ MC Yogi
You are the God-being that is here to create life, to breathe soul into your body, to walk this world as your own source of power, love, worth and life.
~ Joy Page
You cannot breathe deeply and worry at the same time. Breathe. Let the worry go. Breathe. Allow the love and intuition in.
~ Sonia Choquette
You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.
~ Rumi
But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.
~ Knut Hamsun, Dreamers
Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
~ Anne Lamott
And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love
~ e. e. cummings
Holding an asana like Warrior One, with my legs stretched in a lunge and my arms reaching up, I feel grounded and free at the same time. I can sense my body acting as a conduit between the earth and the sky, and feel my breath flowing with this sacred energy.
~ Jonathan Urla
Although Ryan hardly knew the person whose breath was playing over his cheek any better than he had mere seconds before, the simple exchange of names—or initials—had raised the bar for the encounter from anonymously seedy to merely impulsive. He'd always admired impulsiveness, though he'd never successfully cultivated the tendency in himself. Impulsive people seemed to get what they wanted. And if not, they looked like they had a lot of fun trying.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
Always breathing-in this pre-life, exhaling this post. Something goes away, something comes back. But through you. Leaving no trail but self. As trails go not much of one. But patiently you travel it. Your self.
~ Jorie Graham
It is the solstice. A diamond of energy holds us. We breathe, and what we call the next moment between us, where I take your empty hand and we start home, emptied of attempt and emptied of survival skill, is love.
~ Jorie Graham
His jaws parted as he fought for breath. "There's nothing left . . ." he choked out. "It's all dark—everything's gone. . .
~ Erin Hunter
She worries too much. She thinks if I breathe too hard I'm going to be crippled for life.
~ Erin Hunter