“'Who am I?' The answer is 'I am God'. The body comes and goes, but the Atma is permanent. The body has birth and death, but the spirit does not have any of these. You reach the stage where you say, 'I am God', but even there, there is duality, 'God and I'. That is not the full Truth. When we breathe, the breath makes the sound of 'So-Hum', 'He am I'. There is still the body consciousness, the 'I'. But in deep sleep, the declaration of 'He' and 'I' falls away and only '0' and 'M' remain, 'Om'; there is only the One.” DoeStillsBodySpiritFallSoundSleepAnswersConsciousnessStageBirthBreathsBreathePermanentDeclarationComes And GoesDualityBirth And DeathDeep Sleep Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“The EU is deeply harmful, it is an anti-democratic monster. I want to prevent it from becoming fatter, from continuing to breathe, from grabbing everything with its paws and from extending its tentacles into all areas of our legislation. In our glorious history, millions have died to ensure that our country remains free. Today, we are simply allowing our right to self-determination to be stolen from us.” WantSelfCountryTodayMillionsBecomingAreasDeterminationDiedRemainsDemocraticBreatheMonstersOur CountryGloriousAllowingSelf DeterminationContinuingLegislationStolenExtendingPawsGrabbingTentacles Author:Marine Le Pen
“Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met; the casual glimpse from the stranger or the life and death of the close relative; to breathe, for a moment, a Chekhovian air, it's all song and ice.” PeopleBookMomentsInspirationFilmSongCoursesMemoriesMy OwnKnownAirMetsStrangerBreatheIceLife And DeathRelativeLife ExperienceGlimpseCasual Author:Suhayl Saadi
“I have not ever met Donald Trump, and I plan to go my entire life without ever actually having to breathe the same air that he breathes.” PlansAirTrumpMetsBreathe Author:Reza Aslan
“Literally as I walk into the studio I say, "God, hollow me of all my junk. Hollow me of my insecurity, my pride and my doubt. Make me hollow enough that you can breathe something through me that would turn eyes to you." And whether that's a song or a conversation you're going to have with a co-worker, or whatever you're facing, that's for everybody.” EnoughEyeSongTurnsWalksDoubtPrideConversationWorkersStudiosBreatheInsecurityHollowJunkCo Worker Author:TobyMac
“The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we breathe, the water that covers most of the earth's surface, the plants and animals around us, the overall condition of our planet, and much more. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.” WellsChildrenImportantEarthWaterAbilityAnimalEnvironmentGenerationsAirConditionsPlanetsOur ChildrenPlantSurfaceBreatheWelfareSurroundingsOur PlanetFuture GenerationPlants And Animals Author:Yaya Toure
“There are too many bad policy choices to go into that are being pushed by the Trump Administration, but the relaxation of environmental regulations and corporate and banking regulations alone are enough to keep me busy and should be a big concern for every citizen who isn't a billionaire and likes to breathe air.” EnoughChoicesPolicyConcernEnvironmentalBusyBreatheRelaxationBillionaire Author:Shepard Fairey
“It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs.” PeopleImportantTransformationBraveBreathe Author:Judith Butler
“You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.” SometimesBreathe Author:Brooke Fraser
“I think you can teach people a technique - you can teach them how to use their voices, how to breathe properly, how to move their limbs a certain way. But to actually explain how one performs comedy or drama or tragedy isn't the same as the movements one makes.” PeopleThinkingMovingTeachComedyDramaTragedyBreathe Author:Judi Dench
“Playing a TV character for seven years is almost like when you do a play. You live, breathe, and everything else with that character 24-7 for six months or four months or whatever, and that gets very deep in your blood. When you do a TV character for seven years, that's a long time. It becomes a seminal era in your life.” LongCharacterSevenBreatheVery Deep Author:Richard Schiff
“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.” LoveLongSoulMomentsAblePrayerLoversBreatheMysticismCreepsMysticBlending In Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that you have to be funny, you can't afford to focus on the negative. As a comedian, your challenge is to turn negative stuff into positive energy. You should be able to hear anything that sounds bad, that people normally wouldn't laugh at, and make it feel funny to you. No one should be able to deter you, once you have your mind set on comedy. Your survival as a comedian should be as natural as breathing. I need to breathe and I consider my career my air.” PeopleThinkingMindEnergyNaturalChallengesLaughingVirtueComedyFocusSurvivalNegativeBreatheComedianPositive EnergyMind Set Author:DeRay Davis
“The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense.” GivingRealAudienceMusic IsBreatheIntenseGet RealRelentless Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Presenting both sides of Christianity gives the skeptic room to breathe - and to consider the possibility that there's room in Christianity for diversity in interpreting the Bible. And it gives the traditionalist pause to think again - and to consider the possibility that she might need to tweak her hermeneutic.” ThinkingGivingChristianityPossibilityDiversityBreatheSkepticPresentingTweak Author:Stephen M. Miller
“I have all my tricks to unplugging. Sometimes I just close my eyes and I breathe a couple of times, even if I'm in the middle of a conversation. It centers me. Dancing also helps me to unplug, so does writing music. I really enjoy going to Central Park and Upstate New York, when I really want to unplug from the city. Going to the library is great, too. There's just a nice equality about libraries, there's everyone from kids to senior citizens to students, it's a nice environment. I grab whatever book I feel attracted to and then I just sit there and read it for a little while.” WritingBookSometimesHelpingEyeKidsEnjoyEnvironmentNiceStudentsCoupleDancingLibraryBreatheHelp MeSeniorSenior Citizen Author:Kissey
“I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our innocence is one of the most important acts of self-liberation and de-colonization. Not letting the requirement that we adapt to impossible circumstances and unconscionable crimes leave us shackled to the kind of cynicism and armor such that we can't breathe and laugh and magnetize to ourselves all the genius and love and support that we need to transform the situation. That's probably the biggest challenge, is to recover our innocence.” ThinkingKindImportantCommunityChallengesSituationSupportLaughingImpossibleCrimeGeniusCircumstancesBreatheInnocenceCynicismOppressed Author:Van Jones
“My presence isn't simply about "character" - I'm present in every part and particle of the thing, in the sound and rhythm of the sentences, in the shifting tones and the selection of details, in the comedy, the sadness, and the confusion. For the space of an essay, I'm the air you breathe, everywhere and nowhere. With a personal essay, I don't think you'd want it any other way. You ought to have the sense of an encounter, the impression of having met someone. In my essays, for better or worse, that someone is me.” ThinkingCharacterComedySadnessBreatheImpressionConfusionRhythmEssays Author:Charles D'Ambrosio
“Obviously I've got to work hard to have my own label, but it all benefits me in a different kind of way. I can say "No," and nobody's going to be pissed off or breathe down my neck. I can draw the line and take breaks when I want to. I try not to. And getting to develop other artists is something I've always wanted to do.” TryingKindDifferentArtistBreakHard WorkBreatheDifferent Kinds Author:Lady Sovereign
“Slalom skiers train their whole lives for like a minute and a half. We're not soccer or tennis players that can play the whole game. Once you're in the World Cup, you're physically prepared, so then ski racing almost always comes down to more mental than physical. I've been working on understanding that I've done everything that I can up until this point, and now I need to breathe and enjoy the moment, and do what I know I can do, versus trying to do more. Because you're fighting to do more, but that doesn't always work.” WorldTryingDoneMomentsFightingEnjoyUnderstandingPlayerTrainBreatheWhole LifeSoccerTennisRacingTennis Player Author:Resi Stiegler
“Once you are in that ring things happen that you don't expect. There is nothing you can plan for. At the end of the day, you've just got to go in there and feel the guy's spirit. You've got to listen to him breathe, look into his eyes, feel his power and feel his speed. You can't think too much. It is instinctive. It is on-the-fly. But at the same time I go in there and I think it doesn't matter what this guy does, I'm going to have my way. In whatever situation we end up, I am always going to come out on top. That is the one thing that is the same for every single fight.” ThinkingEyeSpiritGuyFightingSituationBreatheSpeedRingsThings HappenMy Way Author:Chris Eubank, Jr.
“I'm an easy mark and a sucker for a charmer. If anyone tried to breathe at the same time as me, I might try to hyperventilate just to see if they'd follow. If they did, I'd probably find that endearing.” TryingEasyBreatheSuckerEndearing Author:Ophira Eisenberg
“I'm more European than anything. I've lived in America for 10 years, and I live in Florida because I like to be outdoors. I live a week in New York, and I live a week in Italy. When I'm here in Italy, I come to work at eight in the morning and usually I leave work at 10 o'clock at night. I don't even breathe the air. So that's why I like to live outside.” NightMorningWeekBreathe Author:Tomas Maier
“The biggest challenge of my career has been wanting to do EVERYTHING! I always say I wish I could clone myself so that I could do everything for work and be a full-time mommy at the same time, and I know that so many women feel the same way. It has been a challenge for me to step back, take a moment to breathe, and to accept the fact that I logistically just cannot do everything and be everywhere at the same time.” MomentsWishChallengesAcceptingBreathe Author:Mally Roncal
“Have you seen this inane support from CNN extolling Hillary Clinton's breathing talents; that she has this unique ability to breathe through one nostril at a time? It's obviously she's got some problems.” ProblemAbilitySupportTalentUniqueBreathe Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The fact is that there's hundreds of thousands of incredibly motivated, active political partisans working on the blogs. These people generate buzz, it generates local activism. These aren't the kind of people that pay attention a little to politics, turn it off and then do something else. They live and breathe politics. And anybody that wants to build a movement or a successful campaign needs people like the people who read blogs.” PeopleKindPoliticalAttentionSuccessfulBreatheActivismPay AttentionMotivated Author:Markos Moulitsas
“I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.” SongBreathe Author:Angel Olsen
“I would have to say movies are my favorite. I love doing TV, too, but it's always rush, rush, rush. With a feature film, those moments and scenes get a chance to breathe, because you don't have to accomplish as much in one day.” MomentsFilmChanceSceneOne DayMy FavoriteAccomplishBreathe Author:Taraji P. Henson
“Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes in your imagination. The actors that I want to be like exercise that way of thinking, and that's kind of what I do.” ThinkingKindRealityImaginationActingExerciseBreatheWillingness Author:Walton Goggins
“I feel incredibly blessed. I'm happy, but all of this movie business, and working as an actress is really hard. When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented. What's due for you is due for you, and you don't know when that's going to come. That's something I struggled with after I got out of school, wondering how long I was going to have to wait. Then beautiful jobs started coming to me. Now, I feel that my path is going to be what it's going to be, and as long as I relax and breathe, I can enjoy it.” LongSchoolBeautifulWaitingEnjoyWonderPathBlessedBreatheRelaxMovie Business Author:Rutina Wesley
“What I'm documenting can be hard to distill, because it's all around us like the air we breathe. I often need to go to a place where I can capture extreme moments.” MomentsBreathe Author:Lauren Greenfield
“I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And a lot of them either take themselves too seriously or don't know how to take themselves at all. But I wanted to be aware in a very sarcastic way that every song I've written has probably been written about 12-16 times before. And doing that makes it very hard for me to accept serious singer-songwriters in the world, the up-and-comers, the ones who are out there who let that define their every move, who live and die and breathe for it. It's a bit of a tragedy, I think.” PeopleThinkingWorldMovingSongAcceptingSeriousTragedyBreatheSarcasticBedroom Author:Kevin Drew
“I think, in fact, there's a plus and a minus to knowing my prior work, Happiness and so forth. The plus is of course you can see how I play with the characters, the storylines, and the way things play off each other. And the minus is that it makes you a little bit more self-conscious, that you're not able to enter the movie as it exists and lives and breathes, because you're so busy making references, connections that you're not able to release yourself from and take the film on your own terms.” ThinkingCharacterFilmTermBusyBreathe Author:Todd Solondz
“Sex workers are the last women police stand in to protect. Sex workers are the last people that room is made for in many ways. You get a different kind of feminism if you put people at the margins at the center. It's a recently resonant lesson, but black feminists have been saying this for decades. Now when I talk to people engaged in sex workers' rights advocacy and people who identify as intersectional feminists, this is the air they breathe. We can't just make feminism about improving the lives of all women. Because there is no such thing as all women and universal female experience.” PeopleKindDifferentBlackFeminismProtectFemalePoliceFeministBreatheDifferent KindsAdvocacy Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“The Hoh Valley is an incredibly secure area. Any event occurs around us, we will instantly become informed of that event. This can even happen at a distance. When the body recognizes that you have a very large listening area, and you're getting all the information, the body relaxes. You can breathe more gently, the cortisol levels that are created by stress in our bloodstream dissipate, and we actually become healthier. And as a result, if we are actually fortunate enough to live in a place like that, we will live longer.” EnoughListeningStressDistanceBreatheRelax Author:Gordon Hempton
“What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don't ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I'm hoping that as we get used to these technologies we'll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.” AttentionTechnologyBreatheBoundaries Author:Brigid Schulte
“Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender. It takes you probably five to six minutes to build trust with an audience. A musical you can build trust in three notes. Boom, boom, boom, you're instantly seduced. So musicals have this easy potency, but generally, in my opinion, they waste them, because a musical is incredibly hard to do.” EasyOpinionAudienceJourneyMusicalBreatheSurrender Author:George C. Wolfe
“We make weapons now that, if we ever used them, would kill ourselves. How do you explode a weapon with so much radiation in it that it will wipe out an entire city and think that it's not going to blow over your own cities? We all breathe the same air. It's madness.” ThinkingMadnessBlowBreatheOver You Author:Wayne Dyer
“A friend of mine said to me not long ago, "Terry you are married to sorrow." I looked at him and said, "No, I am not married to sorrow, I just choose not to look away." To not avert our eyes to suffering is to trust the power of presence. Joy emerges through suffering. Suffering is a component of joy. Whether we are sitting with a loved one dying or witnessing dolphins side-by-side watching the oil burning in the Gulf of Mexico, to be present with the world is to be alive. I think of Rilke once again, "Beauty is the beginning of terror." We can breathe our way toward courage.” ThinkingWorldLongEyeJoySufferingDyingSorrowMarriedTerrorBreatheLoved Ones Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“I think a huge part is how we're socialized growing up to see our value and worth as being tied into a relationship and how our culture teaches us a distorted sense of romantic love - can't live without you, can't breathe without you, I'll die without you. As teenage girls we believe that level of emotional intensity and dramatics equates with real love. We're also taught that if we date lots of people, then we're sluts, so at an early age we put all our eggs into one basket, so to speak, and concentrate on "the one".” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealAgeValuesCultureGirlSpeakTeachGrowing UpEmotionalBreatheReal LoveRomantic LoveTeenageTeenage Girl Author:Rachel Lloyd
“Working with a manuscript with that kind of intimacy is kind of like taking a magnification mirror to your pores. Its horrifying but it shows just where the problems are. Of course, I do get bored of the words after a while. I take breaks from them so that we can breathe. And by the time I'm done with my umpteenth regurgitation, I hate the words. They become flavorless chewing gum. Like how really old gum gets once it starts disintegrating in your mouth. Gum that's lost its elasticity and feels like a sweater.” KindDoneProblemHateBreakI HateBreatheIntimacyBoredChewing Gum Author:Myriam Gurba
“I do feel like L.A. has a very supportive and collaborative energy. I felt that in New York too but also there's so much space here! You can have a home studio. In New York you had to rent a room to do a session or to practice. As a solo artist, it was a lot more expensive. Here there is that comfort in lifestyle a little bit more, being able to breathe a little bit more, and creatively flow, not having to stress about how to get our gear there in a cab and pay by the hour, it's just a different vibe.” DifferentHomeArtistEnergyHoursComfortStressBreatheLifestyleSupportiveCab Author:Alex Winston
“The minute I know it's real to the minute we start shooting, I will work on the script, breaking it down and working on the character, doing as much research as I possibly can to the point where I feel like I eat, sleep and breathe it without looking at a page. Then I go in and try to forget all of it and just be there.” TryingRealCharacterSleepForgetBreathe Author:Hailee Steinfeld
“Dark Horse movie might be blood, sweat, and tears for Todd Solondz, because things are so important to him and so specific. He has such a rhythm and a tone. So while he may have to work so hard to keep that intact, it allows the actors the freedom to just breathe. Because he's done all the heavy lifting. He really has. He has everything the way he needs it. And so we can just get there and be whatever he saw in the audition.” ImportantDoneDarkTearsHorseBreatheRhythmLifting Author:Selma Blair
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” GivingStatesPoorUnited StatesCivilizationMassEmpathyGive MeTiredBreatheImmigrationYearningPhilanthropyUnited States Of AmericaWretchedMigrationIllegal ImmigrantsIllegal ImmigrationStatue Of LibertyJuly 4th 1776Legal ImmigrationUrbanizationColossusDaleksPoor Me Author:Emma Lazarus
“It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.” BreatheAbraham Author:Daniel Day-Lewis
“With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.” SoulDarkSilenceFineBreatheSandLeatherDown The RoadRubberPatentsNocturnal Author:Federico Garcia Lorca
“This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.” IfsWarEarthHumanityCrazyBreatheNuclearReliefSighProgrammesNuclear WarSigh Of Relief Author:James Lovelock