Best Breathing Space Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.”

Missing Friends Distance Alone Isolation Companionship Escape Missing Someone Disrespect I Miss You Apart Reticence Gap Intermission Breathing Space Remoteness Remote Interval

Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“By ring-fencing a time budget for a momentous ‘breathing space’ in the flurry of our life, we may encounter ourselves and take the time to fill the gaps in the framework of our individuality so as to reconcile the qualities of our personality. ( "What after bowling alone?”

Personality Individuality Framework Qualities Encounter Breathing Space Bowling Alone Fill The Gap Ring Fencing Time Budget

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“It was one of those brief spells of complete happiness that come once in a rare while, an unlooked for gift of God, when the forces of darkness, of sorrow and temptation seem miraculously held back, a breathing space in the battle.”

Happiness Gift Breathing Space

Book:The Hawk and the Dove

Source: The Hawk and the Dove

“Why some people feel more comfortable in the “margin” of society, may simply be that it imparts them more breathing space, shores up their identity, embodies a gateway to self-determination, and confers them a sense of sovereignty, allowing more time for stressless apprehension and thoughtful reflection. (“If he doesn't play ball » )”

Society Identity Reflection Thoughtful Self Determination Sovereignty Apprehension Marginalization Breathing Space Stressless

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Some see solitude as loneliness. Others see it as a foetal state from which to blunder out into the world. I see it as a breathing space for contemplation and, indeed, breeding space for ideas.”

Solitude Contemplation Solitude As A Choice Breathing Space Isolation Loneliness Ignorance Isn T Bliss Coming Up With Ideas Solitude Vs Loneliness Splendid Isolation

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Creating a breathing space- away from society's pressures and expectations- is not a sign of weakness or defeat but a recognition of the natural rhythms of life and our need for self-compassion. (“Finally unwind “)”

Society Weakness Pressure Defeat Recognition Self Compassion Breathing Space Finally Unwind Natural Rhythms

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“Meditation is to understand that one breath, which connects all beings.”

Meditation Oneness Breathing Breathing Space Breathing In Awareness Breathe In Last Breath Breath By Breath Every Being One Breath

Book:Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Source: Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

“Silence can be breathing space and spawn release and wellness in a time of appalling inflation of words. But silence may be intolerably screaming, if it means absence of communication, deficiency in friendship and emotional deficit. (« A gap of silence”)”

Time Friendship Silence Emotional Communication Words Absence Release Wellness Inflation Deficit Deficiency Spawn Gap Screaming Breathing Space Appalling Intolerable

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.”

Giving Mind Body Space Views Race Cities Air Birth Breathing Mind And Body Confined Degenerates Hurtful Stagnant Metropolis Breathing Space

Book:The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.”

Giving Heart Asks Space Cry Breathing Rules For Radicals Breathing Space

Author:Saul Alinsky

“I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.”

Thinking Has Beens Might Literature Given Space Media Psychological Worried Breathing Slides Bulimia Breathing Space

Author:Anthony Holden

“Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.”

Life Two Reality Life Is Space Behinds Eternity Breathing Holiday Space Between Breathing Space

Author:Louise Imogen Guiney

“Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when Im not working.”

Giving Trying Littles Jobs Bits Space Hair Little Bit Breathing Breathing Space

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.”

Mind Littles Reality Space Cutting Ready Breathing Meaningless Breathing Space

Book:The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional

Source: The Liam Devlin Novels: The Eagle Has Landed, Touch the Devil, and Confessional

“A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared, you are both in that parenthesis. Its like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.”

Ifs Space Dialogue Breathing Cigarette Arches Parentheses Breathing Space

Author:John Berger

“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”

Wanted Space Comfortable Majors Absence Backgrounds Breathing Neighborhood Intensity Private Life Convenience Calculations Public Life Aggravation Intermission Breathing Space

Book:Familiar territory: observations on American life

Source: Familiar territory: observations on American life

“Work before eating, rest after eating. Eat not ravenously, filling the mouth gulp after gulp without breathing space.”

Space Eating Mouths Breathing Filling Breathing Space

Author:Maimonides

“[The public lands represent] in a sense, the breathing space of the nation.”

Nations Space Land Breathing Breathing Space Public Lands

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“In the future, I will make certain that I commit to projects so there's enough breathing space for me to have an emotional life.”

Enough Certain Space Emotional Projects Commit Breathing Emotional Life Breathing Space

Author:Twyla Tharp

“I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.”

Littles Space Too Much Pieces Breathing Breathing Space

Author:Robert Barry

“What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.”

“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”

Wish Space Breathing Substance Breathing Space

Book:Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.”

“The eighteen years he has lived seem but a moment, a breathing space in the long march of humanity. Already he hears death calling. With all his heart he wants to come close to some other human, touch someone with his hands, be touched by the hand of another.”

Want Years Humans Heart Long Moments Hands Seems Humanity Space Calling Breathing Touched March Eighteen Breathing Space Touch Someone

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.”

Wanted Hurt Space Breathing Breathing Space

Book:Gone With The Wind: American Literature

Source: Gone With The Wind: American Literature

“Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!”

Ifs Pain Space Breathing Breathing Space

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.”

Mean Ends Politics Space History Politician Fairs Critical Breathing Justify Turning Points Ends Justify The Means Breathing Space

Book:Darkness at noon

Source: Darkness at noon

“The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Ifs Moments Action Film Grows Space Building Degrees Constant Breathing Tension Dimensions Numb Clapping Non Stop Breathing Space

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

“We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.”

Knows Giving Feels Space Mystery Childhood Protect Delight Burden Attraction Breathing Experts Secrecy Breathing Space

Author:Sissela Bok

“To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.”

World Mind Long Sometimes Turns Found Space Solitude Distance Breathing Breathing Space

Author:Albert Camus

“That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.”

Giving Age Purpose Dies Space Old Age Breathing Breathing Space

Book:The Thorn Birds

Source: The Thorn Birds