#breathless

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

#breathless #flung #grass #hill #kissed

Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath. God lives without breath; the soul made in his image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time, only during the breathless state. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

#sleep #soul #freedom

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. ↗

— Hilary Cooper

#happiness #life #moments #nice #life

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film. ↗

— Weegee

#capture #film #moment #only #people

He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope. ↗

— Maya Banks

#fever #hope #maya-banks #inspirational

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#failure-to-communicate #communication

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#life

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#affairs #answers #breathless #dance #dark

God, you have a beautiful laugh, and your smile. Jesus, it knocks the breath out of me." "You can't talk to me like that, nobody says things like that to a woman he just met. It's insane." "I just did. And I plan to keep saying them until you believe every word. ↗

— Maya Banks

#fever #jace-crestwell #maya-banks #beauty

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#also #applies #apt #breathless #clearly