Breaths Quotes - Page 31

• It really helps to take a breath and think about what you really want to do out there.

  David Legwand

  Hockey, Thinking, Focus

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• I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.

  A. A. Gill

  Funny, Beach, Lying

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• By choice, we have become a family, first in our hearts, and finally in breath and being. Great expectations are good; great experiences are better.

  Richard W. Fisher

  Heart, Expectations, Choices

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• The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other's face.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fashion, Passion, Autumn

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics

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• Breath is the king of mind.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Kings, Mind

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• Today I felt pass over me A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wind, Wings, Insanity

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• What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten track. No, better let him be happy and live in comfort without originality, is what every mother thinks when she rocks the cradle. The only person among us who can fail to reach the general's rank is the original man - in other words, the man who won't be quiet.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Daughter, Mother, Creativity

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• Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of breath.... Thin people who want to get fat should do exactly the opposite and never take exercise on an empty stomach.

  Hippocrates

  Exercise, Opposites, People

  A Regimen for Health IV (transl. John Chadwick and W.N. Mann)

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• Cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant's hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.

  Michael Pollan

  Garden, Sight, Vegetables

  Michael Pollan (2007). “Second Nature: A Gardener's Education”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The spirit-world around this world of sense
  Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
  Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense
  A vital breath of more ethereal air.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Halloween, Kids, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.628

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• Improve with each breath. Every negative vibration returns 10 fold.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Bhajans, Negative

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• Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.

  Robert Southey

  Morning, Bed, Kick Ass

  Robert Southey, Thomas More (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes”, p.149

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• This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath.

  Paolo Uccello

  Air, Giving, Genius

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• Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Writing, Lasts, Clear

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• We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

  Richard J. Foster

  Two, Silence, Solitude

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Name me no names for my disease,
  With uninforming breath;
  I tell you I am none of these,
  But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,
  For brooks that I had crossed,
  Before I met this flesh and bone
  And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,
  Yet name no name of ills.
  Say only, “Here is where he passed,
  Seeking again those hills.

  Witter Bynner

  Heart, Names, Disease

  Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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• Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.

  Elizabeth Zimmermann

  Knitting, Take A Deep Breath, Ready

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• One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner than that I should seek escape from the sacred necessity that is laid upon me, let the breath of life fail me. It is this: That in spite of all worldly opposition, God's holy ordinances shall be established again in the home, in the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord, to which Bible and Creation bear witness, until the nation pays homage again to God

  Abraham Kuyper

  Passion, Home, School

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• Today I saw cancer, cigarettes, and shortness of breath. This is why I walk to the ocean. Swim with sharks and jellyfish. I may never get this chance again. This is why if you want to kiss, you should kiss. If you want to cry, you should cry. And if you want to live, you should live. You don't have to love me. You already did.

  Ryan Ross

  Cancer, Ocean, Kissing

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• Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

  James Altucher

  Trying, Twenties, Lines

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• Dear Nintendo, We need a new Mario game, where you rescue the princess in the first ten minutes, and for the rest of the game you try and push down that sick feeling in your stomach that she’s ‘damaged goods’, a concept detailed again and again in the profoundly sex negative instruction booklet, and when Luigi makes a crack about her and Bowser, you break his nose and immediately regret it. When Peach asks you, in the quiet of her mushroom castle bedroom ‘do you still love me?’ you pretend to be asleep. You press the A button rhythmically, to control your breath, keep it even.

  Joey Comeau

  Sex, Regret, Princess

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• Every breath is a resurrection.

  Gregory Orr

  Resurrection

  Gregory Orr (2013). “Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved”, p.12, Copper Canyon Press

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• The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.

  Lisa Mangum

  Rivers, Space, Mind

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• All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time

  Jasinda Wilder

  Giving, One Day At A Time, Trying

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