Quotes About Breath

A few deep breaths would take care of that. She studied the horse and took deep breaths.

Costa Gavras, the most totally propagandistic director ever to breathe the air.

Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me, you will see me instantly — you will find me in the tiniest house of time. Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

What is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Breath control is crucial to most of the contemplative traditions... Qur'anic reciters chant long phrases for meditation. It is natural for the audience to adjust their breathing too and find that this has a calming, therapeutic effect, which enables them to grasp the more elusive teachings of the text.

Por lo tanto, para Abenarabi, el mundo natural es el «aliento del Misericordioso», y todo cuanto hay en él es una expresión del suspiro divino.

Some women -- the good ones -- are like a breath of fresh air, amusing and different and invigorating. The trouble is that it is damnably difficult to capture air and hold it for any length of time.

Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of misanthropy and despair.

A handful of heartbeats. That was what life was. A heartbeat followed by a heartbeat. A breath followed by a breath. One moment followed by another moment and then there was a last moment. Life was a s fragile as a bird's heartbeat, fleeting as the bluebells in the wood.

For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.

We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

We are continuous with all the particles of our physical being, as in our breathing we are continuous with the sky. Between our bodies and the world there is unity and commerce.

God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage.

What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.