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Quotes About Breathing

Never give up! If you're breathing, there's hope!
~ Gena Showalter
I survived. Had I hit my head on the wall when Rutger had thrown me, I could've died today. Right now I could be dead instead of sitting here in my office, twenty feet from my home. My mom could be in the morgue, identifying me on a slab. My heart pounded in my chest. Nausea crept up, squeezing my throat. I leaned forward and concentrated on breathing. Deep, calm breaths. I just had to let myself work through it. In and out. In and out. Slowly the anxiety receded. In and out.
~ Ilona Andrews
It couldn't be real. People summoned monsters from the arcane realm, but I'd never heard of anyone summoning actual demons. Yet it was right there, living, breathing, real, and every instinct I had howled and clawed at my logic.
~ Ilona Andrews
I tried deep breathing, but seemed to lose contact with myself between each breath, so that the next one was always an emergency. I began to feel faint.
~ Iris Murdoch
I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.
~ Tammy Duckworth
I love listening to Led Zeppelin and classic rock albums from the Seventies. They're just so brilliant because they breathe.
~ Zacky Vengeance
When you're doing a series, you're really in a zone. You're thinking about those characters and their situations in a free-floating way all the time. They live with you all the time. So it's just as natural as breathing to be having ideas and thinking about what they're thinking about.
~ Winnie Holzman
I try to swim once or twice a week. I basically hold my breath for, like, 12 laps, down and back, to kind of expand my lungs so that I can have better breathing when it comes down to two-minute drives where you've got to play a lot of plays all in one series and you're hurrying up.
~ Antonio Brown
Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!
~ Walt Kelly
These are the gifts that last. Small, as easy as breathing in and out, as plain as bread, they sink beneath what we think we remember, what we think we know, but they remain.
~ Susan Hand Shetterly
There's a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It's like breathing. You have to do it or you'll die. And when it's over, your soul starts to bleed, Livvy. There's no pain in the world like it, I swear. If you were feeling that now, you wouldn't be able to sit up straight or have a coherent conversation.
~ Susan Wiggs
El patrón respiratorio presenta períodos de inspiraciones muy breves, de tipo apneico (respiración casi detenida), seguidos de exhalaciones pasivas incompletas y a veces por una fase espiratoria de tipo "suspiro".
~ Susana Bloch
Sus características respiratorias se definen por una breve y abrupta inspiración por la nariz seguida de una espiración por la boca abierta, el aire saliendo en breves sacadas explosivas que pueden invadir hasta la pausa espiratoria.
~ Susana Bloch
El patrón respiratorio del modelo efector que obtuvimos para la rabia, se caracteriza por ciclos rítmicos de alta frecuencia y de gran amplitud, predominando la respiración abdominal. Siempre la describo como una respiración en "dientes de sierra". Se inspira y se espira por la nariz, dilatando y contrayendo bruscamente las fosas nasales.
~ Susana Bloch
El patrón respiratorio se caracteriza por un ritmo regular, de baja frecuencia y con espiraciones prolongadas; el aire entra y sale por la nariz, la boca está semicerrada y los labios relajados forman una leve sonrisa.
~ Susana Bloch
Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
breathing freely through both nostrils is also said to aid in harmonizing the active and passive systems of the body, and so the neti wash has been found to be a helpful practice before meditation.
~ Swami Rama
Breathing is the one physical function which is both involuntary (it goes on by itself) and voluntary (we can control our respiration consciously). The staggering significance of this simple insight was obvious to India's inner explorers: the breath is therefore the key to control over the autonomic nervous system, that part of our functioning we Westerners were taught lies outside our awareness and runs entirely unconsciously.
~ Swami Rama
I'd done comedy for years, it was almost like breathing so doing something new is dead exciting.
~ James Buckley
We have fans that circulate air in the cabin of the module of the space shuttle. They're running all the time. They're absolutely necessary because, otherwise, you will breathe your own CO2 and intoxicate yourself quite fast.
~ Julie Payette
I liked the air I was breathing, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with my head, " I assured him with a giggle. "Will you kiss me again?" I flirted sweetly.
~ Deborah Ann, Destiny
As I was contemplating each second of your existence, the sound of nothing but your delicate breathing, brings me back the memories of experiences I have not yet experienced
~ Stephen Clayworth
You ask me why I write. You might as well ask me why I breathe. I need oxygen to feed my body and ink to feed my soul.
~ Bryce Main
You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.
~ Kylie Scott, Dirty