Quotes About Breathing

I'm in favor of breathing. Definitely better than not breathing.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

Get a light dumbbell, say ten pounds for an average lady and two to three times as much for a gentleman, and do one arm snatches two to three times a week followed by ab work and back and hamstring stretches. Do as much as you can stand; the sets, reps, and rest periods are up to you. Just make sure to have your heart checked beforehand and slowly ease into the program. And do not forget to synchronize your breathing with your movement, otherwise you will wilt in no time flat.

One popular way of relating to physical pain is mindfulness meditation. It involves directing your full attention to the pain and breathing in and out of the spot that hurts. Instead of trying to avoid the discomfort, you open yourself completely to it. You become receptive to the painful sensation without dwelling on the story your mind has concocted: It's bad; I shouldn't feel this way; maybe it will never go away.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Hand and I needed pants, pants to end all pants—warm and cool, breathing and trapping in, full of pockets.

By pausing, if only for a few seconds and taking a few slow, deep breaths, we can begin to slow down our heart rate and relax our tensed muscles. We can then focus more effectively on what response will best advance our interests.

A la segunda semana, Eric ya estaba enviándome a hacer recorridos de dos horas; su único consejo era que me mantuviera atento a la técnica y mantuviera un ritmo relajado, lo suficiente para que pudiera respirar a ratos con la boca cerrada (cincuenta años atrás, Arthur Lydiard dio un consejo equivalente aunque opuesto para controlar el pulso cardíaco y el ritmo: «No corras tan rápido que no puedas mantener una conversación»).

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

A note exists between two notes of music, between two facts exists a fact, between two grains of sand no matter how close together there exists an interval of space, a sense that exists between senses — in the interstices of primordial matter is the line of mystery and fire that is the breathing of the world, and the continual breathing of the world is what we hear and call silence.

Between two musical notes there exists another note, between two facts there exists another fact, between two grains of sand, no matter how close together they are, there exists an interval of space, there exists a sensing between sensing—in the interstices of primordial matter there is the mysterious, fiery line that is the world's breathing, and the world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

Like all cars with different engines that you see around you, music is the fuel of life. Singing is the alternator whenever you drive. Breathing is for the gas that you are refilling if you want to keep on going.

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.

A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician ... There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

Hardy Cates," I said, coming into the room, "you behave, or I'll step on your tube." The nurse seemed taken aback by my unsympathetic bedside manner. But Hardy's gaze met mine in a moment of bright, hot voltage, and he relaxed, reassured in a way that cooing sympathy could never have done. "That only works if it's a breathing tube," he told me.

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.

You can always hear me breathing during my verses, but that breathing becomes part of the music.

Legends are living, breathing entities in and of themselves. They are born, they feed, they grow, they can give birth to offspring, and they can die. Attention is what feeds a legend.