#breath

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#breath #live #love

I had to accept the fact that bad things happen. It’s out of our control and I know it hurts like hell but you learn to move on. Yes, the pain never fades and it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do but eventually you learn to breathe again. ↗

— J.C. McClean

#life #love #life

You are closer to me than my breath, ↗

— John Speed

#love

but it is a trait in the perversity of human nature to reject the obvious and the ready, for the far-distant and equivocal. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#nature

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next... ↗

— David Abram

#meditation #nature #nature

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

#distance #distant #loss #smile #loss

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. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#life

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

#arms #breathing #climbed #feel #giant

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

#breathe #children #clean #clean air #disenfranchised

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#generation #grandfathers #had #more #our