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Quotes on Breathing

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He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.
Isaac NewtonRead
Of men eternally dear! happy indeed _x000D_ If you have breathing-space _x000D_ From pain: blessed all the more _x000D_ If death should heal you of the pain you fear!
Giacomo LeopardiRead
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to be better than we are in some way. But with this practice you take yourself completely as you are. Then ironically, taking in pain - breathing it in for yourself and all others in the same boat as you are heightens your awareness of exactly where you're stuck.
Pema ChodronRead
Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
Mitch AlbomRead
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn't, it dies. It's important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
Nick CaveRead
O let me lead her gently o'er the brook, Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment touch her wrist; Let me one moment to her breathing list; And as she leaves me, may she often turn Her fair eyes looking through her locks auburne.
John KeatsRead
the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.
Charles BukowskiRead
A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.
James M. BarrieRead
Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.
Robert JordanRead
At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.
Deepak ChopraRead
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.
Stephen SondheimRead
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.
Khaled HosseiniRead
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
Alice HoffmanRead
He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.
Stefan ZweigRead
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
BanksyRead
She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.
Alfred Lord TennysonRead
Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.
J. K. RowlingRead
What is the real breath of a man — the breathing out or the breathing in?
Margaret AtwoodRead
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Vladimir NabokovRead
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
Samuel BeckettRead
He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.
Ray BradburyRead

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