Breathing Quotes - Page 34

• 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

  Falling In Love, Hate, Love You

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• I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Long, People

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• Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have to stop waste, and if you travel for no reason whatsoever, that is a waste.

  David Attenborough

  Mean, Waste, Global Warming

  "David Attenborough: 'I have been in a vehicle that was charged by a rhinoceros, and that was tiresome'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2010.

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• Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, Goes On, Reason

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• I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

  Bono

  Christian, Thinking, Fire

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• The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.

  Nick Cave

  Challenges, Musical, Important

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• I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Law, Rotten

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.12, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

  David Duchovny

  Yoga, Exercise, Meditation

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• A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

  Bob Dylan

  People, Natural

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• Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Yoga, Cutting, Gym Rats

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• I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'

  Eve Ensler

  Good Day, Thinking, Wake Up

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Air, America, Racism

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• Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

  Nhat Hanh

  Grateful, Heart, I Smile

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2010.

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• I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

  Werner Herzog

  Film, Working It, Feels

  "Werner Herzog Talks Teaching Lock-Picking, Being A Living Legend And 'Into The Abyss'". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.indiewire.com. November 14, 2011.

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• I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.

  Lorrie Moore

  Play, People, Facts

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• I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced.

  Aimee Mullins

  Running, Stress, Block

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• Art for me is like breathing.

  Yoko Ono

  Art

  "Yoko Ono On Lennon, Love, Feminism, And Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Choke, Ifs

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• I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.

  Susan Orlean

  Ambition, Games, Zombie

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• My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Jesus, Kings, Believe

  "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.

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• Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Voting, Abstract, Alchemy

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 28, 2012

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• If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.

  Jane Siberry

  Air, Looks, Asking

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• I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

  Jane Smiley

  Book, Writing, Ease

  Jane Smiley (2014). “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

  Ben Stein

  Mean, Animal, Greed

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• Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Growing Up, Noses, Sides

  "High School Musical's Ashley Tisdale Gets Nose Job" by Monica Rizzo, people.com. December 03, 2007.

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