Breath

When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace. ~Author Unknown

When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. ~Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika

A healthy mind has an easy breath. ~Author Unknown

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

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. ~Giovanni Papini

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

Ancestral Teacher Qiu said, "If the breathing is at all unsettled, life is not your own." ~Ming dynasty work

The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating. ~Proverb

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ~Thích Nhất Hạnh

Walking through the house at night is wonderful to me; a symphony of breath, each person a separate instrument as they collectively breathe in time to the metronome of life itself. ~Edwin Leap, www.edwinleap.com

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. ~Thích Nhất Hạnh

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 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 the Solitary

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one’s own life. ~Luce Irigaray, Between East and West

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

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 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

Fear is excitement without the breath. ~Fritz Perls

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

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. Just take a moment. This will give your mind a steadiness and your breath a gracefulness… There’s so much to let go of, isn’t there? Your nostalgia and your regrets. Your fantasies and your fears. What you think you want instead of what is happening right now. Breathe. ~Rodney Yee, Yoga: The Poetry of the Body

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

Happiness breathes when you do. ~Terri Guillemets

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

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

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

Smile, breathe and go slowly. ~Thich Nhat Hanh





If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. ~Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are. ~Josh Groban

I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone? ~C. JoyBell C.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift. ~Amit Ray

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. ~Gregory Maguire

Take every breath as an event. ~Arzum Uzun

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. ~Giovanni Papini

Breath deeply, until sweet air extinguishes the burn of fear in your lungs and every breath is a beautiful refusal to become anything less than infinite. ~D. Antoinette Foy

Inhale the future, exhale the past. ~Author Unknown

The trick to life is to just keep breathing. ~Johnny Lung

When the breath is unsteady, all is unsteady; when the breath is still; all is still. Control the breath carefully. Inhalation gives strength and a controlled body; retention gives steadiness of mind and longevity; exhalation purifies body and spirit. ~Goraksasathakam

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

Only those who know how to breathe will survive. ~Pundit Acharya

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Breathe, it's just a bad day, not a bad life. ~Author Unknown

Inhale, then exhale. That's how you'll get through it. ~Author Unknown

Breathe and let go. Remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ~Author Unknown

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

Conscious breathing heightens awareness and deepens relaxation. ~Dan Brule

Smile, breathe, take it slow, and live a happy life. ~Johnny Lung

Your breath is your anchor. ~Author Unknown

Breath is the link between mind and body. ~Dan Brule

Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing brings shallow thinking. ~Elsie Lincoln Benedict

Life is pretty easy. Breathe in and breathe out, then repeat. ~Author Unknown

It can still be a good day if the only thing you did was breathe. ~Johnny Lung

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it naturally becomes deeper and slower. ~Ilchi Lee

Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers. ~Zhuangzi.

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is the only moment. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

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

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Take a deep breath. Let the rest come easy. ~Author Unknown

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm

Breathing dreams like air. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Regulate the breathing, and thereby control the mind. ~B.K.S. Iyengar

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. ~Dr. Andrew Weil

He lives most life whoever breathes most air. ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As you waste your breath complaining about life, someone out there is breathing their last. Appreciate what you have. ~Author Unknown

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

Breathe like you mean it. ~Johnny Lung

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

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. ~Author Unknown

Breathe. Believe. Receive. ~Author Unknown

Deep breaths are like little love notes to your body. ~Author Unknown

The secret to longevity is to keep breathing. ~Sophie Tucker

All chronic pain, suffering, and diseases are caused by a lack of oxygen at the cell level. ~Dr. Arthur C. Guyton

Take a deep breath. Let out all the stress. You deserve to be okay. ~Author Unknown

Each breath is like a little rebirth, a renaissance that can only be celebrated if we recognize that it's happening. ~Cristen Rodgers