Breathing Quotes - Page 19

• 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.'

  Dario Fo

  Writing, Technique, Sound

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• Happiness, at my age, is breathing

  Joan Rivers

  Inspiration, Age

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• We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

  Seneca the Younger

  Air, Deep Breathing, Spirit

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• Madonna is a "living, breathing cash register."

  Boy George

  Cash, Register

  The London Evening Standard, February 20, 2006.

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• The trouble with the theory [of limited and divided government] is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. This is where the living and breathing constitution comes from. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Tasks, Machines

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• How do you know if someone needs encouragement? If they are breathing!

  S. Truett Cathy

  Encouragement, Needs, Knows

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• Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Sunshine, Practice, Sky

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The belief that life was hard and often its worst battles were fought in private, that it was possible to walk through fear and come out scorched but still breathing.

  Gail Caldwell

  Fear, Battle, Belief

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.78, Random House

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• After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Strong, Fear, Gone

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• Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out, and storytelling is what links both: it is the soul of literacy. The most powerful tool that we have to strengthen literacy is often the most underused and overlooked, and that is a child's own stories.

  Pam Allyn

  Children, Powerful, Reading

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• Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.

  Pam Allyn

  Reading, Writing

  Pam Allyn (2011). “Your Child's Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity, and Skill at Every Age”, p.11, Penguin

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• Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

  Patricia Reilly Giff

  Writing, Essentials

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

  Ron Fletcher

  Alive, Breathe, Take A Deep Breath

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• I'm breathing out of my mouth and thinking things I have only seen on Netflix in the foreign-movie section.

  Tara Brown

  Thinking, Netflix, Mouths

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• There weren't butterflies in my stomach, there were fire breathing dragons.

  Emme

  Butterfly, Fire, Dragons

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• Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Soul, Body

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Health, Eye

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.7, Parallax Press

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• Are you open for this possibility of the energy source of breathing to go through you or are you collapsing? Are you open to this coming and going of air and the possibility-wea ther we sit, or stand, or lie-to allow this exchange of air through us?

  Charlotte Selver

  Lying, Air, Energy

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• Every day you're alive, you can change the world. It could be for the better or for the worse. It can be big waves or small waves. The very fact that you're alive and breathing and walking outside, going to class, whatever it is, you're changing the world with each footstep. There's a lot of weight to that.

  Tim Foreman

  Class, Alive, World

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• The air they breathe, being a living element with both physical and psychical properties, carries a subtle vital energy. This in India is named by the Sanskrit word prana; in Tibet it is called sugs, in Aikido, Japan, ki, and in China, chi. By controlling its circulation throughout the body, man is able to attain spiritual enlightenment or illumination.

  Frank Waters

  Spiritual, Men, Air

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• The men of old breathed clear down to their heels.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, He Man, Clear

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• Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers.

  Zhuangzi

  Inspiration, Men, Giving

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• Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Emotional, Patterns, States

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• One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.

  John Novak

  Yoga, Discovery, Two

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• Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Oxygen, Ninety, Percent

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