Breaths Quotes - Page 28

• Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

  Simon Birch

  Race, Monsters, Gazelles

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• When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Spiritual, Yoga, Goal

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• If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not

  William Shakespeare

  Kissing, Beard, You Like It

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.209

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• If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Regret, Dirty, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.197, Applewood Books

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• If all boys could be made to know that with every breath of cigarette smoke they inhale imbecility and exhale manhood ... and that the cigarette is a maker of invalids, criminals and fools-not men-it ought to deter them some. The yellow finger stain is an emblem of deeper degradation and enslavement than the ball and chain.

  Hudson Maxim

  Boys, Men, Cigarette Smoke

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• Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in when you begin to think that you won't be able to breathe - and finally, when you take in air and the anxiety subsides...that's what it's like to be a vampire and need blood.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Thinking, Air, Blood

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• Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather an inanimate vegetable, draws in aethereal breath for its dayly refreshment and vitall ferment and transpires again grosses exhalations. And, according to the condition of all other things living, ought to have its time of beginning, youth, old age and perishing.

  Isaac Newton

  Vegetables, Age, Earth

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• All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Yang, Harmony

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• Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.

  Laozi

  Mind, Taoism, Force

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• Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

  Laozi

  Baby, Taoism, Newborn

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• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Rip, Sight, Smell

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• The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge. The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Heart, Unique, Secret

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• In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

  William Maxwell

  Lying, Past, Talking

  William Maxwell, Barbara Burkhardt (2012). “Conversations with William Maxwell”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.

  Raghuram Rajan

  Political, Enemy, Suits

  Raghuram Rajan (2013). “Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism”, p.212, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.

  Andrew Hacker

  Black, Berries, Woods

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• Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.

  Santoka Taneda

  Deep Breath, Howl, Sigh

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• Trace the stars with your fingers in hopes you’ll connect the dots, but don’t get caught in the lines that aren’t really there ‘cause there is life in every breath you take and there is hope with every move you make, and every single mistake you think you’ve made should make you feel alive ‘cause you only have one chance to live in this spec we call life.

  John O'Callaghan

  Stars, Mistake, Moving

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• Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

  Curtis Joseph

  Idols, Honor, Reason

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• Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my art for my life. I’ve always said dance is the breath made visible. That covers about everything because once you stop breathing and the breath is no longer visible, you stop moving.

  Anna Halprin

  Art, Cancer, Moving

  "You’re Never Too Old to Express Yourself" by George Heymont, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

  Nikki Gemmell

  Loneliness, Thinking, Self

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• If the year 2000 can help us move into the future, that's fine, but I am afraid that people see it as a full stop and that one can take a big breath afterwards - you can't.

  Graeme Murphy

  Moving, Years, People

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• We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our inspiration . . .

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Inspiration, Blow, Wind

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.12, Wesleyan University Press

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• There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

  Rumi

  Breathing, Way, Infinity

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• You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.

  Ajahn Chah

  Practice, Breathing, Meditation

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• I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

  Marie Ponsot

  Wind, Sky, Air

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