Breathing Quotes - Page 13

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!

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

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

Who I believed myself to be was a hopeless case. I would wake up in the mornings and notice I was still alive and breathing and hate God, hate myself, hate life, and contemplate ways of killing myself.

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still?

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

Every day that you live without proper breathing is another little step of submitting to stress and deterioration of your health.

Find yourself for courage and confidence are as easy as breathing to the person who really knows who he is.

Got shot 5 times but I'm still breathing... living proof there's a God if you need a reason.

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. Youll look and feel way better for it.

It feels good to be winded, having trouble breathing, chest hurts [during a workout]... I'm alive.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

I trained to become a professional Koran singer, from the age of 14 until I was 18. This involved learning Arabic harmony, breathing techniques, all of the things that this entails. And, of course, it involved studying the Koran.

I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

I join all of you who are advocates telling others that they can improve their lives and the quality of their lives and others by taking a few moments, breathing, and allowing one's whole being to become a vessel for positivity.

For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.