Browsing Topic Best Breaths Quotes

Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That’s what musicians are.

I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people … I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it.

Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life’s breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.

Be with those who help your being. Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings,Innocence sweetens my last black breath,Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.

I hold it true that thoughts are things Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings, And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results–or ill.

Neither theological knowledge nor social action alone is enough to keep us in love with Christ unless both are proceeded by a personal encounter with Him. Theological insights are gained not only from between two covers of a book, but from two bent knees before an altar. The Holy Hour becomes like an oxygen tank to revive the breath of the Holy Spirit in the midst of the foul and fetid atmosphere of the world

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces.

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?

Remember that breath walking – as with any meditation technique – should not be pursued with a grim determination to ‘get it right.’ The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.

Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?

We always think we are right, and – search as I have – there is no evil under the sun that somebody somewhere won’t argue is actually a good, no idiocy that hasn’t got its perfectly serious defenders, and no tyrant, past or present – no matter how bloody – without some bunch of zealot schmucks to defend him or his reputation till the last breath in their bodies – or preferably somebody else’s.

Other sound than the owl’s voice there was none, save the falling of a fountain into its stone basin; for, it was one of those dark nights that hold their breath by the hour together, and then heave a long low sigh, and hold their breath again.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

How short is human life! the very breathWhich frames my words accelerates my death.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.

Don’t spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.

Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.

How can any woman believe that a loving and merciful God would, in one breath, command Eve to multiply and replenish the earth, and in the next, pronounce a curse upon her maternity? I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or gave out the laws about women which he is accused of doing.

Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.

I want to entertain people. That’s my whole life. To my last breath.

In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.