Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes. — Walter Kirn
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. — Byron Nelson
Are you a stingy breather? Well, don't be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive. — Ron Fletcher
The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together. — Septima Poinsette Clark
Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart. — Willow Smith
Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. — Gregory Maguire
That's what nature meant us to do, breathe deep when we are stressed. — Wim Hof
You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other. — Gloria Vanderbilt
The breath is the bridge between the body and the mind. — Wim Hof
Bliss begins with the breath. We breathe in, and accept all that is new. We breathe out, and release all that has passed. — Sara Wiseman
Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite. — Maria Shriver
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. — Etty Hillesum
Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants. — Susun Weed
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us. — Donna Farhi
Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity? — Kevin Gates
Short Breathing Space Quotes
Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life. — Luce Irigaray
Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies. — Tara Brach
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need? — Lee Iacocca
As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . . — Pema Chodron
Deep breathing changes the chemistry of the body by bringing oxygen into the tissue. — Wim Hof
We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped. — Heather Gudenkauf
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
Take Time To Breathe Quotes
In life, when presented with any situation, breathe, take your time, focus and then decide what to do. — Rickson Gracie
Keep calm and carry on. A challenging time is just that - a period in time. Taking a few deep breaths and knowing that it won't last forever really allows me to focus on the present moment and task at hand. — Elizabeth Armstrong
Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane] — J.R. Ward
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.' — Sheryl Sandberg
To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where you’re going or backward at where you’ve been. When you do stop, there’s a sense of going nowhere. There’s a sense of gap, which is a tremendous relief. You can simply breathe and be who you are. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever. When things pile sky-high on top of each other, I try to take a moment to: breathe, smile, repeat. This mantra helps me align to the reality outside of the superfluous noise. — Ian Somerhalder
Silence gives you space.
Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them. — Patty Duke
There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment. — Graham Nash
It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously. — Laura Linney
We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-I Can't, take a deep breath and say instead, My resources are otherwise engaged. — Peter McWilliams
Giving Space Quotes
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. — Max De Pree
In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns. — Giordano Bruno
Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back. — Glenn Murcutt
Multitudes and charlatans have entered the cryptocurrency and smart contract spaces who not only lack cypherpunk sensibilities, but hate cypherpunk values, including the values such as trust minimization that give cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin their market values. — Nick Szabo
I am choosing happiness over suffering. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. — Billy Connolly
Your phone needs a recharge every night. Your laptop needs to recharge. Everything needs to recharge. Are you giving yourself space, time, and effort to recharge? — Jay Shetty
Every bad feeling is potential energy toward a more right way of being if you give it space to move toward its rightness — Eugene Gendlin
Giving yourself space and time can actually lead to the birth of more creativity and some of your best work. — Jay Shetty
Mouthbreathing, it turns out, changes the physical body and transforms airways, all for the worse. Inhaling air through the mouth decreases pressure, which causes the soft tissues in the back of the mouth to become loose and flex inward, creating less space and making breathing more difficult. Mouthbreathing begets more mouthbreathing. — James Nestor
Everyday hit every wave, like I’m Hawaiian. I don’t surf the net, no I’ve never been on MySpace, too busy letting my voice vibrate, carving out my space in this world. — Jay-Z
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you. — Chogyam Trungpa
Letting the last breath come.
Letting the last breath go.
Dissolving, dissolving into vast space,
the light body released from its heavier form.
A sense of connectedness with all that is,
all sense of separation dissolved
in the vastness of being.
Each breath melting into space
as though it were the last. — Stephen Levine
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to leave the world a better place... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. — Arthur Koestler
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. — John Updike
There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. — Kahlil Gibran
The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. — H. P. Blavatsky
If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing. — Bridget Riley
The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space. — Saul Alinsky
Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist
Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me
It's less than likely,
Move back,
Let I breathe Jedi knight,
The more space I get the better I write,
(Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write,
I need the space to say whatever I like. — Jay-Z
The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other's face. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. — Leonard Bernstein
The whole inhabited earth is sacred space in which God lives, breathes, and acts. — Carter Heyward
Each full, deep inhale creates more space in your body and mind. Each long, exhale moves you directly into that space. The deeper you breathe, the more opens up. It's like opening a door and walking through with each breath. The fuller your breaths the more and more doors open on up, leaving you with the space to walk on in! — Tara Stiles
Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space. — Maimonides
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect. — Sissela Bok
The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another. — Sherwood Anderson
[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation. — Richard M. Nixon
That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did. — Colleen McCullough
Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe. — Jonathan Sacks
Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space. — Kahlil Gibran
Of men eternally dear! happy indeed
If you have breathing-space
From pain: blessed all the more
If death should heal you of the pain you fear! — Giacomo Leopardi
I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been. — Anthony Holden
What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic. — Anthony Holden
What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life. — Joseph Epstein
People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do. — Toni Cade Bambara
What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things. — Emily Carr
We will eventually build space science labs and hotels, prodding the capability for missions beyond the orbit of the Earth. Our space-hotel guests will be able to take breath-taking excursions, flying a couple of hundred feet above the Moon's surface in small two-man spaceships. In time, we will launch missions to Mars and beyond. — Richard Branson
To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage. — Albert Camus
Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity. — Roger Joseph Boscovich
In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life. — Twyla Tharp
A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue. — John Berger
Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot. — Charles Duke
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me. — Veronica Roth
I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece. — Robert Barry
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say... how we enjoy ourselves... Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. — Victoria Finlay
But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up, higher, higher - then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing away. I breathed deeply. I tried to breathe space between my thoughts, find the space between the anger. — Jaimal Yogis
How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
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. — Lauren Oliver
Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance, if you have that reverb, you can give the songs a little more space. You can play them a little slower or you can play less of the guitar part and just let it open up, which I really love. It's so nice to play a listening room, because the audience feels a certain way too. — Denison Witmer
I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are feeling and breathing in a way that you're really aware of your muscle and bone and the breath and the body and the movement and all of those things that just you take for granted in the urban landscape. — DJ Spooky
Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope. — Jack Higgins
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