Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nhat Hanh

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

Nhat Hanh

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

Nhat Hanh

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.

Nhat Hanh

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Nhat Hanh

Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

Nhat Hanh

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

Nhat Hanh

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

Evan Parker

Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.

Julia Cameron

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

P. D. James

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

Paul Rusesabagina

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

Paul Auster

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.

Ken Wilber

Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.

Kim Harrison

Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying.

Keren Ann

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

Nicholas Stoller

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.

Lauren Oliver

Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

Oprah Winfrey

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

That's a positive impact for us. We see it as providing significant breathing room.

Pope Francis

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

Peter Wright

I have to experiment with methods and I'm trying to find an authentic way of making an equivalent of the living, breathing person within the limits of a single picture.

Mother Teresa

Love should be as natural as living and breathing.

Leonard Orr

The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.

Marco Rubio

We need to put people on the bench that understand the Constitution is not a living and breathing document. It is to be interpreted as originally meant.

Sharon Salzberg

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Breathing determines emotion. Emotion determines breathing.

Pippa Middleton

From breathing techniques, muscle toning to overall flexibility and relaxation, my Pilates sessions have become something of a weekly necessity that keeps me fit, happy and energized.

Kenneth Branagh

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it’s as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

Laurie Halse Anderson

Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

L. Ron Hubbard

A workman is not just a workman. A laborer is not just a laborer. An office worker is not just an office worker. They are living, breathing, important pillars on which the entire structure of our civilization is erected. They are not cogs in a mighty machine. They are the machine itself.

Joseph Pilates

Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.