Breaths Quotes - Page 36

• A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Assessment, Flesh, Littles

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.2, no.2 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Powerful, Real, Voice

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• I've never seen a moon in the sky that, if it didn't take my breath away, at least misplaced it for a moment.

  Colin Farrell

  Moon, Sky, Moments

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• Take one more deep breath, savor it, and plunge forward without thinking. Do not allow yourself hesitation. Do not allow yourself a moment of doubt. Follow your instincts and go where you never would have considered possible.

  Corey Taylor

  Thinking, Doubt, Moments

  Corey Taylor (2014). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven: (or, How I Made Peace with the Paranormal and Stigmatized Zealots and Cynics)”, p.21, Da Capo Press

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• As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .

  Pema Chodron

  Birth, Moments, Something New

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.117, Shambhala Publications

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• Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone.

  Alan Watts

  Secret, Wipe, Take A Deep Breath

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• Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Blessed, Heart, Listening

  Twitter post from May 4, 2017

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• Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Writing, Long, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 02, 2014

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• That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

  Rob Bell

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• I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

  Cy Twombly

  Taken, Liberty, Done

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don't even recognize that growth is happening...Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

  Alice Walker

  Long, Personality, Waiting

  "Living by the Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987". Book by Alice Walker, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1988.

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• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breath in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder-they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when we're breathing in. The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other.

  Li-Young Lee

  Thinking, Oxygen, Blood

  "The Totality of Causes". Interview with Tina Chang, www.poets.org. February 21, 2014.

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• I take a breath when I have to.

  Ethel Merman

  Breathing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

  Pope Francis

  Breathing, Giving, Praise

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• He didn't take her breath away. Maybe the opposite. But that was okay-that was really good, actually, to be near someone who filled your lungs with air.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Love, Air, Opposites

  Rainbow Rowell (2014). “Landline: A Novel”, p.80, St. Martin's Press

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• Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

  Rumi

  Christian, Buddhist, Ocean

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• The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Heart, Privacy

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.209, New Directions Publishing

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• Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.

  Francis Parkman

  Clouds, Light, Air

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.29, VM eBooks

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• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Air, Years

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• In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

  Mark Twain

  Flower, Years, Twenties

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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• Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

  Deepak Chopra

  Air, Rivers, Tree

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• My baby is amazing, even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him!

  Orlando Bloom

  Baby, Smell, Whole

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• The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.

  Rumi

  Reality, Magic, Breathe

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• All I need is one mic . All I need is one life, one try, one breath, I'm one man.

  Nas

  Men, Trying, Needs

  Song: One Mic

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• Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Play, Mind, Important

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