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Breathing Quotes - Page 14

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.148

To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.

"Hilary Swank Is Ready for Takeoff". Interview with Joanna Coles, www.marieclaire.com. October 7, 2009.