Breaths Quotes - Page 23

• We are bound to expire. Even metal which is sturdiest, rusts. Even oxygen, the breath of life, soon transpires.

  Luis Medina

  Death, Oxygen, Rust

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• There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Answers, My Heart

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• ...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee; All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem; In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea; Breath and bloom, shade and shine,- wonder, wealth, and-how far above them- Truth, that's brighter than gem, Truth, that's purer than pearl,- Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe- all were for me In the kiss of one girl.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Truth, Heart

  Robert Browning (2012). “Browning's Shorter Poems”, p.95, tredition

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• Coffee gives me bad breath.

  Norah Jones

  Coffee, Giving, Give Me

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• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mean, Angel, Night

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1867). “The Friend: a series of essays ... First American, from the second London edition”, p.348

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• You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Motivational, Fear, Failure

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• There is no big mystery to Tantra. It is in the allowance and grace of the breath. Breathe easy and naturally and you will open the door to a sacred intent. With this sacred intent, love making becomes spiritual and holy. You open the gateway to total joy and you embrace the divine, erotic impulse. So breathe and relax. This is tantra.

  Janet Robertson

  Spiritual, Doors, Joy

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• You know what makes your heart swift, you know what makes your breath catch your throat, you know what makes your chest tight with anticipation. Go get that!

  Sanjay Gupta

  Inspirational, Graduation, Heart

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• How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Practice, Meditation

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• Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.

  Susun Weed

  Garden, Plant

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• When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew the blur of wings, the rocketing form, and the Great Moment that only hunters know, when all existence draws down to two points and a single line. And the universe holds it breath. And what may be and what will be meet and become one - before the echo returns to its source.

  Pete Dunne

  Gun, Hunting, Echoes

  Pete Dunne (1995). “Before the Echo: Essays on Nature”

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• Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Long, Enough, This Life

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• Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

  Barbara Sher

  Swimming, Thinking, Water

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• Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

  Marie Chapian

  Smoking, New Life, Done

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• There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

  James N. Miller

  Talking, Listening, Conversation

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• Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.

  M. J. Ryan

  Gratitude, Grateful, Thinking

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• I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through. Listen to this music.

  Hafez

  Integrity, Moving, Flutes

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• Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor kirtans, not in legs winding around your own neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. When you really look for me, you will see me instantly - you will find me in the tiniest house of time. Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

  Kabir

  Spiritual, Vegetables, House

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• In the inhalation and exhalation there is an energy and a lively divine spirit, since He, through his spirit supports the breath of life, giving courage to the people who are in the earth and spirit to those who walk on it.

  Michael Servetus

  Life, Journey, Breathing

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• December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

  John J. Geddes

  Summer, Memories, Winter

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• When I take my last breath, will there be a wish that I had more stuff? I'll wish for only one thing, I think. That I loved better. That I had been better at loving and not being distracted by stuff or accomplishment. This life is so short and it will soon be over. What will we use it for?

  Colin Beavan

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Wish

  Colin Beavan (2009). “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process”, p.210, Macmillan

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• I feel certain that words
  can be as human
  as people,
  alive
  with the breath
  of compassion.

  Margarita Engle

  Compassion, People, Alive

  Margarita Engle (2013). “The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they did not fit with a preconceived system of eschatology? Russell's Parousia takes the Bible seriously when it tells us of the nearness of Christ's return. Those who claim to interpret the Bible literally, trip over the obvious meaning of these time texts by making Scripture mean the opposite of what it unequivocally declares. Reading Russell is a breath of fresh air in a room filled with smoke and mirror hermeneutics.

  Gary DeMar

  Jesus, Reading, Mean

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• Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

  Gary Haugen

  Jesus, Strong, Children

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