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Quotes About Breath

the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath
~ Robert Lowell
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.
~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
I have learned to live my life one step, one breath, and one moment at a time, but it was a long road. I set out on a journey of love, seeking truth, peace and understanding. I am still learning.
~ Muhammad Ali
And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Overwhelmed with sensation, Corliss closed her eyes. She felt the soft flax of his hair between her fingers, felt the heat of his breath through the thin silk covering her breast. Her melancholy, so bleak and suffocating, had evaporated almost completely, like nighttime fog burned off by the hot morning sun.
~ Shelly Thacker
While I breathe, I hope,
~ Sherry Thomas
What we call 'I' is just a swinging door, which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
But the way of practice is just to be concentrated on your breathing with the right posture and with great, pure effort.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no "I," no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Autumn air is good for the lungs.
~ Silas House
If I breathed the word That disappeared all people in the world, leaving the world to the world, would you say it? Would you sing it out loud?
~ Simon Armitage
Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.
~ John Leguizamo
Love has been stronger than the air you breathe.
~ Jon Jones
I've been doing Isha Kriya meditation and love it. Don't get me wrong, it isn't easy or available everyday - but I'm making the effort to stop, sit, breath, and connect.
~ Kathryn Budig
I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy!
~ Kris Carr
I love hearing my audience breathe.
~ Adele
Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I believe That angels breathe And that love will live on and never leave
~ Josh Groban
And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.
~ William Shakespeare
Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love sets your heart free. Be not afraid: dig deep, Take a deep breath And reach for the sky In your lover's heart.
~ Laura Ramirez