Breathe Quotes

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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Dec 02, 2011

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• You cannot breathe deeply and worry at the same time. Breathe. Let the worry go. Breathe. Allow the love and intuition in.

  Sonia Choquette

  Worry, Intuition

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Nov 09, 2011

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• Smile, breathe and go slowly.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Positivity

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• Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Sleep

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• We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

  Anne Rice

  Light, Moments

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1108, Ballantine Books

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.

  Ron Fletcher

  Breathing, Alive, Take A Deep Breath

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• Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

  Adyashanti

  Life, Knowledge, Love Is

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• If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.

  Russell Simmons

  Decision, Remember, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Dec 09, 2015

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  It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Thinking, Clouds

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1768, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

  Thomas Gray

  Poetry, Poetic, Gray

  'The Progress of Poesy' (1757) l. 110

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• Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.

  Ashley Purdy

  Life, Bad Day, Bad Life

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• In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.

  Jonathan Raban

  Country, Nature, Air

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• Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

  Johnny Depp

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Persevere. Plan. Strategize. Focus. Breathe. Write. Let go: relax. Forgive. All this failing: take a nap.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Letting Go, Writing, Naps

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, July

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Tolerance, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.501, Wordsworth Editions

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• The beautiful in life...
  Some talk of it in poetry,
  Some grow it from the soil,
  Some build it in a steeple,
  Some show it through their toil.
  Some breathe it into music,
  Some mold it into art,
  Some shape it into bread loaves...
  Some hold it in their hearts.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Beautiful, Art, Meaning Of Life

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• Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Poetry, Poetic

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.1, Northwestern University Press

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• Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.

  Caroline Myss

  Kindness, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Caroline Myss from Feb 04, 2014

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• If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

  Catherine Keener

  Character, Giving, Alive

  "Not just a chick thing". Interview with Simon Braund, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.

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• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Commitment, Culture

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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  Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

  Ayrton Senna

  Men, Islands, Air

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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