Breathe Quotes

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Morning, Enjoy

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Children, Same

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy

Children, Small, Same

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin

Writing, Through, Write

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey

Yourself, Moment, Sure

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

Head, Clouds, Paradise

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
Albert Camus

Children, Social, Needs

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim Carrey

Through, Hell, Place

Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
Ayrton Senna

Men, Live, Give

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Love, God

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
William James

Said, Able, Actually

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov

Die, Same, Reason

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope

Happy, Care, Wish

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia Woolf

Mind, Heart, Tolerance

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul

Good, Children, Evil

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator.
Rick Perry

Life, Enjoy, Reflection

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Men, Live, Justice

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
George Santayana

Society, Live, Necessary

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child

Business, Remember, Advantage

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
Max Muller

Deep, Together, Thoughts

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
Marilyn Manson

Mind, Fire, Small

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
Lady Gaga

Work, Live, Strange

The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it's coming with alarming rapidity.
William Shatner

Here, Water, Drink

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
Cat Stevens

Love, Music, She

You have the sun, you have the moon, you have the air that you breathe - and you have the Rolling Stones!
Keith Richards

I love hearing my audience breathe.
Adele

Love, Audience, Hearing

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch

Love, Women, Men

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.
Jerry Saltz

Time, Good, Wrong

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein

Help, Cannot, Believing

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