Breathing Quotes

Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable.

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

I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

I take a breath when I have to.

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

As we free our breath through diaphragmatic breathing, we relax our emotions and let go our body tensions.

Love is your song - you can sing it any time. It is like breathing. Nobody is going to take it away from you; nobody can take it away from you.

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book

The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.

Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.

No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.

Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

It's funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it's all you ever think about.

Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Living is not breathing but doing.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.

You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

I've been smoking nearly 50 years now. I just don't feel safe breathing anything I can't see!

Breathing determines emotion. Emotion determines breathing.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

If you're saved and you're breathing, you need to know who William Tyndale is.

Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!