Breaths Quotes - Page 25

• There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Breathing, Keys

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• Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

  Agnes Repplier

  Strong, Home, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1932). “To Think of Tea!”

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• The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.

  Lu Tong

  Sweet, Loneliness, Wind

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• Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Eye, Gay

  'From Oedipus at Colonus'.

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• Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Night, Giving

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

  Ivan Doig

  Soldier, Written Word, Courses

  Ivan Doig (2009). “The Eleventh Man”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Air, Needs, Genius

  Ludwig Von Mises (1978). “Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The”, p.108, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• More than anything I want to be fit so I don't get out of breath when I play football with the kids.

  Stella McCartney

  Football, Kids, Play

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• What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Prayer, Giving

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• A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.

  George Gershwin

  Emotional, Triumph, Machines

  "Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources". Book editing by Daniel Albright (University of Chicago Press), essay "The Composer in the Machine Age" (1933), 2004.

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• Michael Koryta's THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is an absolutely thrilling read. I read most of it with my breath held, occasionally exhaling to ask myself, 'What will happen next?' I highly recommend it.

  Kevin Powers

  Wish, Exhaling, Next

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• When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.

  Reinhold Messner

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

  Elaine Paige

  Drama, School, Taught

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• I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.

  Fleur Adcock

  Writing, Solitude, Feelings

  Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Order, Cities

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.157, Vintage

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• Look at the animals roaming the forest: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the birds flying across the sky: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the tiny insects crawling in the grass: God’s spirit dwells within them. Look at the fish in the river and sea….There is no creature on earth in whom God is absent… his breath had brought every creature to life… God’s spirit is present within plant as well. The presence of God’s spirit in all living things is what makes them beautiful; and if we look with God’s eyes, nothing on earth is ugly.

  Pelagius

  Beautiful, Eye, Animal

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• When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

  Adi Shankara

  Lasts, Grammar, Can Do

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• Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Gratitude, Real, Earth

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• For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

  Alice Miller

  Long, Soul, Ashes

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.280, Macmillan

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• Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still ask ourselves how to speak to each other, without taking breath away from them.

  Luce Irigaray

  Clouds, Air, Self

  Luce Irigaray (2000). “To be two”, Athlone Press

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• The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation, Attention, Used

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Lines, Speech, Building

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• Wherever love and compassion are active in life, we can perceive the magic breath of the spirit blowing through the sense world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Compassion, Magic, World

  Rudolf Steiner (1998). “Love & Its Meaning in the World”, p.235, SteinerBooks

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• Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American revolution.

  Thomas Sankara

  Struggle, Humanity, Wish

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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