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Quotes About Breathing

Therefore, the deeper your breathing, the more circulation of your secret rivers of life you can get. This is especially
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Try taking time for a few minutes of deep, slow breathing morning and evening, to train yourself for optimum breathing all
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
~ Thomas Watson
DeBlass's eyes darted left and right. His breathing grew hard and fast. My client does not acknowledge ownership of the weapon in question. Your client's scum. The lawyer puffed up. Lieutenant Dallas, you're speaking of a United States Senator. That makes him elected scum.
~ J.D. Robb
Your father sent me," he said distinctly. And then he got into the backseat. Beth stopped breathing.
~ J.R. Ward
He was well aware of when she fell asleep—her breathing changed and her leg twitched from time to time. He wondered if she was kicking him in the ass in her dreams.
~ J.R. Ward
Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
~ Ray Charles
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
~ Herman Hesse
Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.
~ Deepak Chopra
Sure as I am breathing, sure as I'm sad I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh I leave here believing more than I had This love has got no ceiling
~ Eddie Vedder
Breathing, posturing, etc. are no doubt helps in Yoga; but they are merely physical. The great preparations are mental. The first thing necessary is a quiet and peaceable life.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There was a tiny silence, only the soft hum of the fluorescence. I thought of her in the cold ruined house, with night birds keening above her and rain gentle all around, dying of breathing
~ Tana French The Likeness
Mindfulness gives us breathing space from this conditioning.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
She would remind herself that in reality she was safe despite her fears, or that her hyperventilating was only a sign of temporary anxiety, not a sign that she would suffocate.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
When a schema trigger disturbs your equilibrium, stirring strong feelings and reactions, it can be quite helpful first to calm your mind down and neutralize your feelings by, for instance, meditating on your breathing for a bit.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing. When we speak, we use the breath in our lungs to give our thoughts a physical form. The sounds we make are simultaneously our intentions and our life force.
~ Ted Chiang
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings just by changing your breathing.
~ Marina Abramovic
Because Pilates requires you to press your abs toward your spine, you don't want to allow your lower belly to round and press out as air comes into your lungs. You also don't want that abdominal lock to force you to breathe shallowly. To breathe correctly, you must expand your rib cage, primarily through your midback.
~ Denise Austin
I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.
~ Twiggy
I'm a germophobe, so I don't like people talking over my food, breathing, spitting, anything. Just let me eat in peace.
~ Astro
How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?
~ Neal Stephenson
excitement is found along the road, not at the end, and likewise, peace is not a fixed point-except perhaps in the unwanted rest in peace sense. PEACE is the breathing space between destinations, between excitements, an occasional part of the journey, if you're lucky. PEACE is a space you move through very rarely, and very briefly-but your not allowed to stay there. you have to keep moving, and go do what you do. because you can...
~ Neil Peart
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, then up to the ceiling and around the room, doing my best to keep my composure, then back to Jamie again. She smiled at me and I smiled at her and all I could do was wonder how I'd ever fallen in love with a girl like Jamie Sullivan.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I've got a shadow on the lung as a result of being in intensive care, so I find running quite hard. I breathe mainly through my mouth because my nose is damaged, so I keep swallowing flies.
~ Katie Piper