Breathing Quotes - Page 27

• I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative that is unfolding right then and there.

  Peter Jackson

  Thinking, Museums, Pieces

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

  Albert Camus

  Art, War, Men

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• Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate balance between working and idling, being and doing. It is a bodily labor that produces nothing but thoughts, experiences, arrivals.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Heart, Balance, Body

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin

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• Simply bringing awareness to the process of breathing initiates the release of peptide molecules from the hindbrain to regulate breathing while unifying all systems.

  Candace Pert

  Molecules, Awareness, Release

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• Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

  Nhat Hanh

  Two, Focus, Minutes

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice”, p.25, Parallax Press

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• I like 'Unsung' but I'd rather have a 'Behind the Music' while I'm still breathing.

  Lalah Hathaway

  Behinds, Stills

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• I think sex is part of life, like eating and breathing.

  Donatella Versace

  Sex, Thinking, Eating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.

  Nhat Hanh

  Balance, Steps

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Traveling isn't something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing.

  Gayle Forman

  Travel, Inspiring Travel

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 05, 2015

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• Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

  Evan Parker

  Use, Courses, Kirk

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• I want to be the poster child for taking care of yourself after 40. Obesity is an epidemic in this country and I'm a living, breathing example of what it means to stay healthy.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Country, Children, Mean

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• When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Character, Phones, Trying

  "Exclusive: Giancarlo Esposito Talks Current Projects, More; Directing Series On Slave Abolitionist John Brown". Interview by Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.

  Shahin Najafi

  Age, Technique, Singers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do.

  Dean Williams

  Important, Changing Your Life, Important Things

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• When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia entries instead of stories. Their hesitancy about physical and psychological intimacy can be a barrier to vital fiction. Conversely, a narration that makes readers hear the characters' heavy breathing and smell their emotional anguish diminishes distance. Readers feel so close to the characters that, for those magical moments, they become those characters.

  Jerome Stern

  Distance, Character, Writing

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• Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate brain; to reject the living, breathing reality of the totality of all possible attention.

  E. J. Gold

  Reality, Uncontrollable Urge, Brain

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• Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing,
  with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.

  Daniel Beaty

  Girl, Daughter, Father

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• Just as teardrops, when they are large and round and compassionate, can leave a long strand washed clean of discord, the summer rain as it washes away the motionless dust can bring to a person's soul something like endless breathing.

  Muriel Barbery

  Summer, Rain, Dust

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• War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.

  Francois Rabelais

  War, Passing Away, Coins

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.159, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing. The cord had cut off my oxygen - not the entire time, just at the end, when my mom was giving birth. When I came out, I wasn't conscious, so they had to work on bringing me back. It was a crazy moment.

  LaMarcus Aldridge

  Mom, Crazy, Cutting

  Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com.

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• Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

  Julian Schnabel

  Art, Writing, Painting

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• Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging...in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.

  Karlfried Graf Durckheim

  Art, Flower, Fall

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• Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

  Lauryn Hill

  Practice, Attention, Crowns

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  Nothing comes easy, but as long as you're breathing, you're always one breath away from making your dreams a reality. Make every breath count.

  Kai Greene

  Dream, Reality, Long

  FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Mar 23, 2014

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• Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

  Maimonides

  Breathing Space, Mouths, Eating

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