505 Quotes About Breath

In Yaichka [Яичка], they say a child draws her first breath through her ears, her second through her eyes, and her third through her mouth. . . . The first breath is for the mother, the second breath is for God, and the third breath is for the father. The breath through the mouth brings the most pleasure, and we forget immediately that we ever knew how to breathe any other way.

Just like the first breath of life, any engine must be triggered in order to turn it on.

Leala's breath was "like a cello sawing away against the bouncing-bow contrabasses of her heartbeat.

In our breath lies not only the gift of life, but also the basis of all resolutions, ideas, and infinite audacity.

Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in.

I inhale deeply and hold it. Every time I do this lately, I feel like I need to see how long I can hold it. See if I can understand how Eamon must have felt. But I know nothing would make me understand that king of agony. The fear. Did he know he was taking his last breath when he gasped that last time ?

You have to love them enough to take a small little breath.

Close to your breath, I have embraced the world.

Is the mask working?" she asked me."How can I tell?""If you can breath, then it's working.