Quotes about Breathing

Scientist, Leader, Guru

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Breathing - Crying - Death - Disease - Eternity - Feelings - Grief - Hearing - India - Insult - Joy - Story - Youth

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

Breathing - Consciousness - Force - Key - Mindset - Thinking - Transformation

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.

Breathing - Care - Certainty - Feelings - Force - Influence - Kindness - Meaning - Remembering - Repetition - Spelling - Taste - Thinking

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Richard M. Nixon

Businessman, President, 37th U.S. President

The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent, it is in our hands. A future which brings the balancing of our resources-preserving quality with quantity - is a future limited only by the boundaries of our will to get the job done.

Boundaries - Breathing - Destiny - Drinking - Jobs - Mysticism - Quality - Water

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John Milton

Poet, Civil Servant

Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

Breathing - Earth - Enchantment - Mortality

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Virginia Woolf

Writer

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Breathing - Mindset - Sense

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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more.

Breathing - Righteousness - Universe

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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Adversity - Breathing - Conceit - Effort - Joy - Love - Mornings - Suffering

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Homer

Poet

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Belief - Blessing - Breathing - Earth - Father - Giving - Man - Movement - Spirits - Suffering

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Bryant H. McGill

Author, Public Speaker, Activist

Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.

Breathing - Giving - Simple - Soul - Spirits

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic, Political Activist

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

Breathing - Heavens - Man

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Toni Morrison

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

Breathing - Familiarity - Friendliness - Habit - Lie - Pets

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Marshall B. Rosenberg

Psychologist

We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.

Breathing - Empathy - Giving

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Joseph Conrad

Writer

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

Breathing - Human

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wildness is a greenwood, her wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild animals, but not the wild man in her, became extinct.

Animals - Breathing - Man - Poetry - Reflection - Wild

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

Breathing - Earth - Heavens

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Rajneesh

Guru

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.

Breathing - Songs

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Breathing

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

Breathing - Pure - Simple

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing and digestion harness transformation. Food and air aren’t just shuffled about but, rather, undergo the exact chemical bonding needed to keep you alive. The sugar extracted from an orange travels to the brain and fuels a thought. The emergent property in this case is the newness of the thought; no molecules in the history of the universe ever combined to produce that exact thought.

Bonding - Brain - Breathing - Chemistry - Dependence - Production - Property - Spiritual - Transformation - Universe

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