Breath Quotes

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Freedom, Living

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Another, Next

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Before, Except, Tree

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Someone, Accept, Mint

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Sarah Bernhardt

Food, Everything, Words

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
Tom Welling

Life, Work, Deep

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields

Down, Clever, Cheese

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot

Struggle, Words, Strange

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
Konrad von Gesner

Best, Heart, Everything

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

Used, Touched, Hugging

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily Dickinson

Life, Love, Death

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
Chuck Palahniuk

Live, Die, Choice

This is a moment in history where it is almost hard to catch your breath.
Hillary Clinton

History, Hard, Moment

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Mary Manin Morrissey

Love, Good, God

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

Heart, Deep, Old

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.
Miley Cyrus

Love, Music, Alive

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Good, Writing, Water

Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
Donald Trump

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Thought, Same, Name

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

Science, Keep, Conscience

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Chief Seattle

Life, Same, Spirit

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
William Butler Yeats

Life, Death, Mind

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
Morihei Ueshiba

Life, Change, Truth

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Different, Sing, Truly

Space is the breath of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka

After, Fresh, Vanity

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Great, Reality, Joy

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.
Sylvia Earle

Live, Matter, Sea

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
William Hazlitt

Life, Spiritual, Speak

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Jules Verne

Life, Lonely, Everything

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