#breath

That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me. ↗

— Eric Massa

#around #breath #chemotherapy #cold #cold weather

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. ↗

— James Nathan Miller

#conversation #know #life #listen #provided

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. ↗

— Frederick Tennyson

#dies #drowns #joys #like #loud

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#best #breathes #him #instinctively #know

Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#aware #breathe #dance #deeply #i

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

#choice #die #every #live #minute

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#breathing #fact #feel #feel good #funeral

I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go. ↗

— Mandy Patinkin

#breath #every #everywhere #go #i

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

#breathe #children #conscience #evil #formed

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#freedom #must #oxygen #science