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Quotes About Breathing

Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you're inhaling enough oxygen. It cares only whether you're expelling enough carbon dioxide - that's the gas that sets off the panic button when you're suffocating.
~ Sam Kean
When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week. You put aside thoughts about which preschool you're going to enroll him in and focus on how he's doing right now. It's not the Norman Rockwell relationship that you sign on for when becoming a parent.
~ John C. McGinley
Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
~ Mitch Albom
Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.
~ Sri Chinmoy
I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.
~ Candis Cayne
At the beginning of any magical working, take few minutes to concentrate on your breathing. This helps to alter your state of consciousness and also improves the flow of life energy within the body.
~ Storm Constantine
It is like breathing to us, and to ignore math in this story would be akin to listening to Frank Zappa without ever having taken hallucinogens, an incomplete experience.
~ Stuart Rojstaczer
There is life here. Anyone hearing this is breathing, maybe hurting, but breathing for sure. And if there is any light to come, it will shine from the eyes of those who look for peace and justice. After the rubble and rhetoric are cleared and the phoenix has risen, affirm life. affirm life. We got to carry each other now. You are either with life, or against it. Affirm life.
~ Suheir Hammad
There is life here. Anyone reading this is breathing, maybe hurting, but breathing for sure. And if there is any light to come, it will shine from the eyes of those who look for peace and justice after the rubble and rhetoric are cleared and the phoenix has risen. Affirm life. Affirm life. We got to carry each other now. You're either with life or against it. Affirm life.
~ Suheir Hammad
Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.
~ Pete Wentz
In the stillness, our eyes do all the silent talking. Our chests move with heavy breathing and desire pours out through our pores. It's unmistakable.
~ Yara Greathouse, Dismantled
In the morning, that moment, when I knew it was you. When I could feel you breathing and we opened our eyes at the exact same time.
~ Kate Chisman
My Favourite hobby is to sit still and convert oxygen into Carbon Dioxide. Love to Live.
~ Brahmananda Patra
Love is not a verb. Love is a noun. Love's activity is people breathing, cells dividing, a dove taking a flight. This grammar of life not all can see.
~ Mohit Parikh, Manan
Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
~ Mitch Albom
All he heard was his own labored breathing, followed by an echo of that breathing. He inhaled and heard a louder inhale. He exhaled, and it exhaled too. Eddie squeezed his eyes shut. Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken, and Eddie knew.
~ Mitch Albom
It was bizarre to see the expectation that mothers-to-be must be "masked" as they were in labor. Everyone in the birthing community teaches the critical importance of breathing correctly, for safe births. That well-documented central belief was dropped by the right-on obstetric and doula community overnight.
~ Naomi Wolf
I want to love what I'm doing. Love who I'm with. Have a passion for life, for breathing, for beauty, for everything. I don't want to die without that zeal, that fever, that excitement brewing inside me. I want to live, not merely exist.
~ Carolyn Brown
I had a smell in my nose that just wouldn't go away, and I hated it. It was coating my lungs inside, I thought, and I'd spend the rest of my life breathing it in and breathing it out. The odor was composed of burning building materials, scorched bodies, and disintegrating vampires. It was the smell of hatred.
~ Charlaine Harris
In management, everything is different. If you look at successful coaches, they always need time to kickstart something. Arrigo Sacchi - when he started the revolution at Milan, he was almost on the brink of being sacked, but then he won, and people started believing in the system; he had more time to breathe.
~ Edgar Davids
How can we stop this state of agitation? How can we stop our fear, despair, anger, and craving? We can stop by practicing mindful breathing, mindful walking, mindful smiling, and deep looking in order to understand. When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The point of meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
We have a lamp inside us, the lamp of mindfulness, which we can light anytime. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. We
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When you're in bed and unable to sleep, the best thing to do is to go back to your breathing. Resting is almost as beneficial as sleeping, and you'll know that you're doing the best that you can. Bring peace to your breathing and your body so you can rest.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh