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Breathing

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. – William E. Simon

In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. – Peter Matthiessen

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. – Swedish Proverb

The path of humanity is always coordinated with heaven and earth in the alternation of movement and stillness. Human energy is always in communion with heaven and earth in the alteration of exhalation and inhalation. – “Heaven and Earth,” c. Ming dynasty work Anthology on the Cultivation of Realiza

Fear is excitement without the breath. – Fritz Perls

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. – L. Frank Baum

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? – Mary Oliver

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

Happiness breathes when you do. – Terri Guillemets

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. – Laurence Binyon

Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself. – Carla Melucci Ardito

Let the air become you, and then leave you. Forgive each breath because although it abandons you, every single time, it is also brings you life. A man who cannot forgive the air has no chance of living. – Edmond Manning, King Perry

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity. – Rumi

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. – Oprah Winfrey

In an underdeveloped country, don’t drink the water; in a developed country, don’t breathe the air. – Changing Times magazine

The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe. – Terri Guillemets

We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. – Alexander Lowen

I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy! – Kris Carr

To live is not breathing it is action. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau