Breathe Quotes

• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Water

• I've gotta breathe it, I've gotta eat it, I've gotta sleep it and until you get there you will never be successful in life. But once you get there I guarantee you, the world is yours. So work hard, and you can have whatever it is that you want.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Life
  • Important
  • Writing

• To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Paris
  • Breathe

• The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Real
  • Heaven
  • Air

• I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • Giving
  • Team
  • Focus

• Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.

  

  Will Herberg
  • Religious
  • Needs
  • Breathe

• The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Truth
  • Bird
  • Breathe

• You cannot judge the value of a life by its quantity. It is by the joy that you are feeling. The more joyful you are, the longer you live. Let yourself relax and breathe and be free and be joyous, and romp.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Joy
  • Feelings
  • Judging

• The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Water
  • Quality
  • Air

• This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Water
  • Situation
  • Position

• Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Culture
  • Breathe
  • Smog

• The breath is a powerful toolit creates a bridge between the subconscious and conscious mind, and connects the mind and the body. When you sit and breathe deeply, your physiology will change, and both your mind and your body will relax and become open. Breathing helps clear your head of the thoughts of the emotions and ego, and it allows you to get closer to your true self.

  

  Carmen Harra
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Helping

• There is a time to go ahead and a time to stay behind. There is a time to breathe easy and time to breathe hard. There is a time to be vigorous and a time to be gentle. There is a time to gather and a time to release. Can you see things as they are And let them be all on their own?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Time
  • Breathe
  • Release

• Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Sleep
  • Meditation
  • Importance

• When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Relationship
  • Changing
  • Announcement

• You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Work
  • Success
  • Sleep

• Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself.

  

  Richard Rolle
  • Yourself
  • Breathe

• Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in every quiver of your hand?

  

  Andrei Sinyavsky
  • Hand
  • Breathe
  • Smiling

• Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

  

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Air
  • Wise
  • Silence

• When I'm not working I just like to be comfortable: I love black, nothing tight, no heels, no make-up - it's nice to be able to breathe!

  

  Eva Green
  • Working
  • Makeup
  • I Love

• I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Fighting
  • Lying

• We write poems as leaves give oxygen - so we can breathe.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Breathe
  • Poems
  • Oxygen

• Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lunges. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Long
  • Depression
  • Comfort

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