Cathy Freeman Quotes

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

Cathy Freeman

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• I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Work
  • Body
  • Yoga

• I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Life
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

  

  Banks
  • Live
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Care

• Our nation has abundant clean energy resources, and tapping them will generate jobs, make the air safer to breathe, and tackle climate change - the greatest environmental crisis of our time.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Change

• When I'm not working, I prefer not to use any make-up so my skin can breathe. And I always moisturise.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Up
  • Working
  • Breathe

• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Breathe
  • Just
  • Skin

• I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Feel
  • Inspired

• I always breathe cricket.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Breathe
  • Cricket

• Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Law
  • Air
  • Breathe

• No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• The age of personal statues is gone. No personal statues shall be erected in the city or parks of Chandigarh. The city is planned to breathe the new sublimated spirit of art. Commemoration of persons shall be confined to suitably placed bronze plaques.

  

  Le Corbusier
  • Art
  • Age
  • City

• Most of the oxygen we breathe is made by ocean plankton. And when animals left the seas in which life arose, they took seawater with them, in their bodies - an internal environment crucial for cellular survival. We are, in a sense, soft vessels of seawater.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Ocean

• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Writing
  • Culture
  • Breathe

• I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Air
  • Breathe
  • Italian

• If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.

  

  Betty White
  • Responsibility
  • Animal
  • Kindness

• I meditate. I breathe out what I can't control and focus on the positives.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Breathe

• Definitely when you give a script to an actor, it's like dropping a capsule in water and the fizzing starts. That's when the thing starts to live and breathe.

  

  Jeff Nichols
  • Live
  • Water
  • Breathe

• An uncle of mine emigrated to Canada and couldn't take his guitar with him. When I found it in the attic, I'd found a friend for life.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Uncle

• They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.

  

  William Rivers Pitt
  • Moving
  • Bottom
  • Unfolding

• When we descend all the way down to the bottom of loss, and dwell patiently, with an open heart, in the darkness and pain, we can bring back up with us the sweetness of life and the exhilaration of inner growth. When there is nothing left to lose, we find the true self - the self that is whole, the self that is enough, the self that no longer looks to others for definition, or completion, or anything but companionship on the journey.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Breathe
  • Relaxed
  • Guarded