Breathing Quotes

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls.

All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain.

If every moment is sacred and if you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.

Goose bumps happen when your soul is close to you, breathing lightly on the back of your neck, and wakes you up.

Dancing is like breathing-missing a day doing either is very bad.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.

I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

As a healer, the first thing to tell every patient is to breathe deeply. Shallow breathing means no endurance, no patience.

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

The key to longevity: keep breathing.

The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.

Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die.

You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

I only miss you when I'm breathing.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.

As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love.

Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.

Christ is ever in the world of existence. He has never disappeared out of it.... Rest assured that Christ is present. The Spiritual beauty we see around us today is from the breathings of Christ.

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.

Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.

Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty surya namaskars in a row.