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Quotes About Breath

And they took the strain and off they went up the field the plough cutting clean. I can mind how I stood there and watched him my heart full of pride for him and I breathed in the smell of the earth. Nothing like the smell of new turned earth. A cold metal smell it is, but clean and good like the first breath of life.
~ Michael Morpurgo
She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
~ Bjork
Everyone who plays the flute should learn singing.
~ James Galway
Everybody sings from their diaphragm.
~ Rod Stewart
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
~ Lisa See, Peony in Love
I didn't understand that when you make love, you actually do MAKE love. Stir things. Affect each other. The breath that escapes from me is dazzled. He breathes it in with a gasp.
~ Jenny Downham
I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
Love is the crown that glorifies; the curse That brands and burdens; it is life and death. It is the great law of the universe; And nothing can exist without its breath.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
For me the motley and the bauble, yea, Though all be vanity, as the Preacher saith, The mirth of love be mine for one brief breath!
~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles
You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?
~ Harry Chapin
Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.
~ Jeanette Lee
We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance
~ Bill Bryson
Every time you breathe, you exhale some 25 sextillion (that's 2.5 x 1022) molecules of oxygen—so many that with a day's breathing you will in all likelihood inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person who has ever lived.
~ Bill Bryson
Every time you breathe, you exhale some 25 sextillion (that's 2.5 x 1022) molecules of oxygen—so many that with a day's breathing you will in all likelihood inhale at least one molecule from the breaths of every person who has ever lived. And every person who lives from now until the sun burns out will from time to time breathe in a bit of you. At the atomic level, we are in a sense eternal.
~ Bill Bryson
When you take a breath, the nitrogen in the air goes into your lungs and straight back out again, like an absentminded shopper who has wandered into the wrong store.
~ Bill Bryson
You tell them that our lives can change with every breath we take and tell 'em to hold on like hell to what they've got: each other, and a mother who would die for them and almost did. You tell them we've all got meanness in us, but we've got goodness too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. And that's why we've got to make sure we pass it on.
~ Billie Letts
I almost died because of obesity. It make me cannot breath when sleep at night.
~ Bob Dylant
Mahoney: Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait. Mr. Magorium: No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.
~ Suzanne Weyn
If individuals breathe through the right side, they said, they tend to become more active and aggressive, more alert and more oriented toward the external world. Breathing through the left side, on the other hand, produces a quieter, more passive psychological state, one more oriented toward the inner world.
~ Swami Rama
you are in pain. Relax. Take a breath. Let's pay attention to what is happening. Then we'll figure out what to do. [p. 10]
~ Sylvia Boorstein
Eu? Eu nu am facut nimic. -Respiri. E de ajuns.
~ Sylvia Day