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Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next. -- George Steinbrenner
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. -- Nhat Hanh
Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? -- Mary Oliver
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. -- Martin Luther
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. -- Harper Lee
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
Breathing first, winning next. -- George Steinbrenner
Breathing determines emotion. Emotion determines breathing. -- Linda Stone
Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life -- Giovanni Papini
Breathing is optional, but I need some air. -- Isaac Marion
Eating was hard. Breathing was hard. Living was hardest. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Breathing is the first act of life, and the last. -- Joseph Pilates
Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman. -- Samuel R. Delany
Breathing control gives man strength, vitality, inspiration, and magic powers. -- Zhuangzi
Breathing can and should bring you into a ready-to-act condition instantly. -- Vladimir Vasiliev
I like finishing a movie and having this living, breathing thing. -- Dean Cain
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing. -- Colin Davis
Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life. -- Luce Irigaray
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. -- Jonathan Edwards
Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy. -- Erykah Badu
Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. -- Nhat Hanh
Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do. -- Dean Williams
Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment. -- Nhat Hanh
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration. -- Jack Kornfield
Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out. -- Nhat Hanh
Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard. -- David Levithan
Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness. -- Alexandra Bracken
The deletion of logic is through....LoveAcceptanceForgiveness Compassion Understanding Faith in the unknownPresent Moment Living Conscious Breathing -- Matthew Donnelly
Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity? -- Kevin Gates
The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. -- Henry Vaughan
What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? -- Mary Oliver
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. -- Arundhati Roy
Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense. -- Amit Ray
Breathing in, breathing out, ain't that what it's all about. Living life crazy loud, like I have the right to. -- Selena
Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? -- Lynda Barry
Breathing is always key in any character. When you have a character with no voice, that makes it even more important. -- John Carroll Lynch
Breathing is my best ally. By doing simple breathing exercises, I can quickly come back to center and feel more grounded. -- Gisele Bundchen
Breathing is fundamental to speech. A stammer is caused by erratic airflow, so if you have a smooth airflow, you have smooth speech. -- Gareth Gates
Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. -- Bruce Babbitt
I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs. -- Chris Evert
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. -- Herman Hesse
Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy. -- Rick Allen
Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart. -- Nhat Hanh
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
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character. -- Anne Rice
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
From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands. -- Alice Hamilton
I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It's not just about being able to run around the block a few times. It's about alleviating stress and controlling breathing. It's about being balanced. -- Aimee Mullins
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. -- Joseph Lancaster
As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice. -- Christy Turlington
I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people. -- Tony Campolo
I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. -- Karen Allen
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. -- Paul Auster
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. -- Byron Nelson
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. -- John Updike
I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.' -- Eve Ensler
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again. -- Erma Bombeck
For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic. -- Adam Duritz
Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation. -- Nia Peeples
I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists. -- Charlie Sheen
Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix. -- Kanye West
Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You'll look and feel way better for it. -- Suzanne Somers
The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave. -- Gregory David Roberts
In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it. -- Henry Louis Gates
The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below. -- Ernest Shackleton
I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air. -- Shania Twain
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. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue. -- John Berger
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them. -- Otto Hahn
Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick. -- Bonnie Bassler
My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. -- Allen Toussaint
Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent. -- Matt Damon
I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good. -- Maya Angelou
I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing. -- Elizabeth Berkley
Just breathing isn't living! -- Eleanor Porter
Nature is our spirit, breathing. -- Jaeda DeWalt
Even breathing is a contribution. -- Byron Katie
I am living breathing freedom. -- Hiroko Sakai
I'll write while I'm breathing. -- Alexander Zalan
Art for me is like breathing. -- Yoko Ono
Living is not breathing but doing. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness, at my age, is breathing -- Joan Rivers
The key to longevity: keep breathing. -- Sophie Tucker
It's a living, breathing thing, acting -- Frank Langella
Madonna is a living, breathing cash register. -- Boy George
Im a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. -- David Brock
To be alive is to be breathing. -- Sharon Gannon
If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy. -- Andrew Cuomo
I only miss you when I'm breathing -- Jason Derulo
I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. -- David Brock
Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive. -- Tablo
Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Metabolism is oxygen. And oxygen comes from breathing. -- Marc David
Regulate the breathing, and thereby control the mind. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing. -- Nicole Blackman
To live is not breathing it is action. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes. -- Walter Kirn
I am breathing. That's how I'm staying alive! -- Ryan Stiles
My head's under water but I'm breathing fine -- John Legend
The secret of longevity... Is to keep breathing! -- Sophie Tucker
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. -- L. Frank Baum
Love is breathing each other with all madness -- Seema Gupta
How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral? -- Susan Scott
I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing. -- Kris Kristofferson
Love should be as natural as living and breathing. -- Mother Teresa
When you're pushed killing is as easy as breathing -- Sylvester Stallone
Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health. -- Andrew Weil
Walking is almost as important as breathing, for me. -- Paulo Coelho
I can't believe I'm breathing and happy and thriving. -- Tig Notaro
Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero. -- Bindi Irwin
Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking. -- Elsie Lincoln Benedict
Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. -- Khaled Hosseini
Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists. -- Manny Pacquiao
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing. -- Peter Porter
I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it? -- Robert Bolt
Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out. -- Pam Allyn
In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing. -- Neil Gaiman

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