1. “Why be crying, fearful, lonely, when you have the whole universe? Be still, listen to your heart, breathe, and know you need nothing.”
2. “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.”
3. “Interestingly, the Greek word psyche, which we often use to indicate our mind or the emotional state of our mind, actually means soul or spirit, or most tellingly, the breath of life.”
4. “These practices demonstrate that the mind and the heart follow the lungs, not the other way around.”
5. “If we don’t Pause, life will find a way to take one for us, whether we like it or not. For instance, sometimes illness is our body’s way of forcing a Pause.”
6. “When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
7. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
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8. “Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.”
9. “Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.”
10. “What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?”
11. “We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”
12. “Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding.”
13. “Our every breath connects us to the divine ocean of peace, joy, and happiness. Feel the joy of mindful breathing.”
14. “Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.”
15. “Only when you explore the ecstasy of simply being, where even to breathe is a distraction, can you call yourself complete.”
16. “Grant me the grace to dissolve my negative thoughts about myself today. I breathe the grace of kindness into my heart. And may the grace of healing flow abundantly to every one in need of help.”
17. “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”
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18. “Breathe in that vital connection to the life source and sensual beauty everywhere. Feel loved and strong.”
19. “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.”
20. “Breathing affects your respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, gastrointestinal, muscular, and psychic systems, and also has a general effect on your sleep, memory, ability to concentrate, and your energy levels.”
21. “Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
22. “If you really want ‘wellness’, you need to go back to basics & make sure the foundation of your health-your breathing-is good.”
23. “Are you a stingy breather? Well, don’t be. Be extravagant with you breathing and come fully alive.”
24. “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.”
25. “By controlling your breathing, you can use a voluntary mechanical behavior to make a profound change on your state of mind.”
26. “Your shoulder muscles can restrict your breathing. Your chest muscles can restrict your breathing. Your ankle muscles can restrict your breathing.”
27. “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.”
28. “If you’re still breathing, you have the power to take control of your life — to take control of the world.”
29. “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.”
30. “When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.”
31. “The breath is free from greed, hatred, delusion, and fear. When the mind joins with the breath, the mind temporarily becomes free from greed, hatred, delusion, and fear.”
32. “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.”
33. “No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes are, how skinny or young or wise we are-none of it will matter unless we’re breathing correctly.”
34. “To give desire a voice is to give it a body through which to breathe and live. It is to admit and submit something which is on the outer limits of your understanding.”
35. “Your breath is your anchor in the present moment.”
36. “In an underdeveloped country don’t drink the water. In a developed country don’t breathe the air.”
37. “When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give you the peace. It has the power to resolve the unsolved equations of life.”
38. “The sun loves the moon so much that he dies every night to let her breathe, and in return, she reflects his love.”
39. “If you need to control yourself – your mind, body, emotions, or behavior – then start by getting control of your breathing.”
40. “Thanks to the regulation of breathing patterns, patterns in our thinking are not just affected, but revealed, together with their entanglement with respiration.”
41. “In other words, by changing the breath pattern one can induce a chosen state of mind.”
42. “Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.”
43. “We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.”
44. “Bliss begins with the breath. We breathe in and accept all that is new. We breathe out, and release all that has passed.”
45. “The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them. Breath is the essence out of which philosophers have constructed the entity known to them as consciousness”
46. “If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be to simply learn how to breathe correctly.”
47. “When you practice mindfulness of breathing, then the breathing is mind.”
48. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
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49. “Breathe 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.”
50. “Being calm is a skill that starts with proper breathing. Dr. Tully taught me that breathing deeply and regularly is not only the key to remaining calm, but also instantly connects us to a higher vibration.”
51. “So get out of your mind and into your breath because the breath is the life-force. Not your mind, the breath. Follow your breath, and it will lead you anywhere in your brain—and thus the mind—that you want to go.”
52. “Breath is life. We should pay as much attention to it as any other aspect of beingness.”
53. “Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.”
54. “The breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness.”
55. “The intrinsic link between prana and citta accounts for why the yogis insisted on breathing practices as the primary means to pacify the mind. Through the breath, the ANS is directly impacted. Breathing can effectively modulate the reactive loop, and restore us to a more coherent frame of mind.”
56. “True breathing is like a flower blooming. If we hold our breath, the bud never opens.”
57. “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.”
58. “Breathing well means breathing more slowly and deeply. Relax, feel your breathing, and breathe comfortably. Once aware, it naturally becomes deeper and slower.”
59. “I am as confident as I am of anything that, in myself, the stream of thinking…is only a careless name for what, when scrutinized, reveals itself to consist chiefly of the stream of my breathing.”
60. “Your breathing determines whether you are at your best or whether you are at a disadvantage.”
61. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
62. “It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the ones who tell us how to navigate, breathe, feel, think, enjoy, and fully live our lives.”
63. “I strongly suspect that all children engage in “advanced” breathing/healing practices, only to forget them as the habits of age literally take the breath away.”
64. “We can always hope, but we must not live on hope. Let us step beyond expectations, and remain resilient. Let us breathe consciously without fright, striving to take over our grail of freedom.”
65. “When we focus on the breath, our breathing naturally becomes calm. When the breath becomes calm, the mind and body also become calm.”
66. “Wonder takes our breath away, and makes room for new breath. That’s why they call it breathtaking.”
67. “When the Breath wanders, the mind is unsteady, but when the Breath is still, so is the mind still.”
68. “The breath is always present. It lives and dies so quickly it doesn’t have time to occupy thoughts.”
69. “You’ll have to choose between kissing and breathing one day. You’ll learn to breathe some other way.”
70. “Whatever is going to happen in life will happen. Just be thankful to be alive — to be breathing.”
71. “The world may feel like it’s spinning out of control, but you don’t have to. Anchor into your breath. Slow your pace so that you can remain clear.”
72. “Each breath is like a little rebirth, a renaissance that can only be celebrated if we recognize that it’s happening.”
73. “You cannot breathe deeply and worry at the same time. Breathe. Let the worry go. Breathe. Allow the love and intuition in.”
74. “If our breathing is light and calm—a natural result of conscious breathing—our mind and body will slowly become light, calm, and clear, and our feelings also.”
75. “Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing brings shallow thinking.”
76. “Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”
77. “You once promised to remind me to breathe but when the walls of real life started closing in you left me suffocating.”
78. “Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.”
79. “You can experience the beauty of nature only when you sit with it, observe it, breathe it and talk to it.”
80. “When the incoming breath is offered into the outgoing breath, the outgoing breath is offered into the incoming breath, or when both are offered into the retention, the mind is purified of self-interest.”
81. “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.”
82. “Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.”
