Breathing Quotes - Page 26

When I was 25, I was in a show called 'Bajour,' and I was going to leave the show because I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sing, and I couldn't do the basic dance steps I had to do. Fortunately, two actors in the production - who were also yoga instructors - taught me some breathing exercises, and my asthma was cured that day.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

Hades was the personification of dark and dangerous--a living, breathing Batman.

This time the fluttery feeling in my stomach was more intense. It made the inside of my thighs tingle and my breathing deepen.

The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up in the elevator like this and couldn't keep our hands off each other, couldn't get to each other quick enough. I was mad for you. I wanted you more than I wanted to keep breathing. I still do." He deepened the kiss as the elevator doors opened. "It's never going to change.

We don't have a studio, we don't have a radio station, we don't have anybody breathing down our necks to make a budget. We don't have any benchmarks that we have to hit. Our benchmarks are ones that we have set.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

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.

And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what...to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, then up to the ceiling and around the room, doing my best to keep my composure, then back to Jamie again. She smiled at me and I smiled at her and all I could do was wonder how I’d ever fallen in love with a girl like Jamie Sullivan.

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

"I am breathing in and liberating my mind. I am breathing out and liberating my mind." One practices like this.

Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.

When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize.

When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world.

Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing.

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

Be a living, breathing example of the Highest Truth that resides within you.