Breath is Spirit.  The act of breathing is Living.
- Author Unknown

Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within.
- Author Unknown

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.
- Giacomo Leopardi

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

When I am totally race fit, I don’t worry about breathing or technique – they take care of themselves.
- Frank Shorter

The breezy call of incense-breathing morn. – Thomas Gray

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
- Harper Lee

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

A healthy mind has an easy breath.
- Author Unknown

The earth upon which the sea, and the rivers and the waters, upon which food and the tribes of men have arisen, upon which this breathing, moving life exists, shall afford us precedence in drinking!
- Atharva Veda

If you took acting away from me, I’d stop breathing.
- Ingrid Bergman

I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was… very erotic.
- Hugo Weaving

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
- John Keats

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
- Byron Nelson

I love when I sort of come to and I’m on the other side of the room, sweaty and breathing heavy, with bottles and ashtrays tipped over everywhere. I’m like, ‘What just happened? Oh yeah, I got laid. Gotcha’
- Jolene Blalock

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice – they teach you breathing, resonance.
- Harry Dean Stanton

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart:  I am, I am, I am.
- Sylvia Plath

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
- Sophocles

Inhale, and God approaches you.  Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you.  Exhale, and you approach God.  Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.
- Krishnamacharya

I think it’s about time people just back off and give me a little bit of breathing space so I can enjoy myself in my own home.
- Frank Bruno

I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
- Steve Martin

For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth.
- Sanskrit Proverb

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
- Jonathan Edwards

Smile, breathe and go slowly.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air.  The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart.  Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart.  And so, having collected your mind within you, lead it into the channel of breathing through which air reaches the heart and, together with this inhaled air, force your mind to descend into the heart and to remain there.
- Nicephorus

To keep the fire burning brightly there’s one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart – about a finger’s breadth – for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
- Marnie Reed Crowell

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
- Edith Wharton

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

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
- Kahlil Gibran

In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
- Hattie McDaniel

I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds, and the breathing air and smiling face of the hills.
- Giacomo Leopardi

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait, but if he does not learn it, he must perish.
- Alfred Adler

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

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
- Thomas De Quincey

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

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
- Erma Bombeck

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

The best things in life are nearest:  Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.  Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
- Victor Hugo