“If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.” IfsThreeWorryMagicTreeBreathsAddressesFinding YourselfSaying Thank YouDandelions Author:Robert Bateman
“It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.” GivingFirstsThreeSoundVoiceNumbersMusicCasesExampleMaterialsMusic IsBeatsThirdsBreathsFingersThroatVocalTrumpetsHarmonicasSevilleVocal Music Author:Isidore of Seville
“If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.” PeopleIfsThreeStepsBreathsNervousRelaxFinding YourselfEverestSmall Steps Author:Martha Beck
“Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.” LightThreeGoalPathYogaBreathsFilledHerbsPostureYoga Sutra Author:Terence McKenna
“Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.” TryingKidsLastsThreeAmountBreathsFoundationRoutineNew ThingsFamily LifeSelf CenteredDaily Routines Author:Camila Alves
“So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.” ThinkingHomeKidsSchoolYoungSongThreeRecordsDadHigh SchoolBreathsYeahMy DadComing HomeStreisand Author:Meryl Streep
“Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.” TurnsThreePrayerPerspectiveEternityBreathsJudaismThree TimesDeep BreathInhaleTurn To God Author:Jonathan Sacks
“I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.” IfsYearsFirstsSometimesHandsWantedBeautifulThreeLostVoiceSweetSightBreathsThree YearsBeautiful ThingsYawning Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“During intermission she peeked out at the theater, watching it refill. When it was almost full and the lights blinked on and off, she saw three people file in through the center door and her breath caught. Time lapsed as they walked down the center aisle: three teenage girls all in a row. They were so big, so bright, so beautiful, so magnificent to Carmen’s eyes that she thought she was imagining them. They were like goddesses, like Titans. She was so proud of them! They were benevolent and they were righteous. Now, these were friends.” PeopleBigsLightEyeBeautifulGirlThreeSawsDoorsProudTheaterBreathsCaughtRighteousGoddessMagnificentTeenageFilesBenevolentAnd OffAisleTeenage GirlTitansIntermissionRefills Author:Ann Brashares
“Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.” ThreeAirBattleBreathsCommunicateScreensElectricWire Author:Wendell Berry
“He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.” IfsStillsStatesLightLastsThreeGrowsEmotionMorningSawsReflectionWindowEmptyWeakAnd LoveBreathsConvictionDisappearPeacefulClockTowersConsentDeep Emotions Book:The Metamorphosis Source: The Metamorphosis
“Then I felt something inside me break and music began to pour out into the quiet. My fingers danced; intricate and quick they spun something gossamer and tremulous into the circle of light our fire had made. The music moved like a spiderweb stirred by a gentle breath, it changed like a leaf twisting as it falls to the ground, and it felt like three years Waterside in Tarbean, with a hollowness inside you and hands that ached from the bitter cold.” YearsMadeHandsLightFallThreeFeltBreakFireChangedColdQuietBreathsMovedFingersCirclesBitterGentleThree YearsLeafsIntricateSpunHollownessBitter Cold Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.” PeopleHardReasonNightThreeForgetCrazyStupidBreathsDay And Night Author:Nicholas Sparks
“As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting me go, leaving me to the black universe I had wandered for so many lifetimes. I drifted into the black, and it got brighter and brighter. It wasn't black at all - it was blue. Warm, vibrant, brilliant blue...I floated into it with no fear at all.” UniverseThreeStarsBlackSawsCallingBreathsBlueLifetimeLeavingWarmBrilliantNo FearLeaving MeBrighter Author:Stephenie Meyer
“His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up the hem, teasing and stroking his thumb across my stomach. My breath came in a sharp intake of air.” TwoThreeFourAirBreathsFingersLeavingShouldersStomachButtonsLeaving MeThumbsTeaseHemPatch And NoraCardigans Book:Silence Source: Silence
“The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!” StillsTwoBigsEyeThreeDarkTreeFeetColorWindHugeGoldBreathsLipsHeavyDinnerTinyGoldenIdiotShallowBentPupilsBlinkFieryAmberClearingColossalEyelidsStraight UpGolden EyeGastonAmber Eyes Author:Ilona Andrews
“I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.” KnowsHardGuyThreeBreathsBaitThree Words Book:Between the Lines Source: Between the Lines
“They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound - the most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat....I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen...It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.” MadeBeautifulThreeFeltSoundAliveHeardHairSkinsEarsBreathsFilledSensesTunesThroatBeautiful ThingsPalmsVibratePhysical ThingsAuditoriumsTune Up Author:Jojo Moyes
“Take some very deep breaths," Miranda said. "Relax. Concentrate. Then envision a frosty six-pack and wiggle your pinky." A frosty six-pack. Kylie inhaled. He held out her pinky, and right then Della chimed in. "We are talking a six=pack of soda, not a cold guy with good-looking abs, right?" There was a strange kind of sizzle in the air. And suddenly appearing in front of the refrigerator was a shirtless, shivering guy with great abs. His blue eyes studied the three of them in complete bafflement. "What the...!" he muttered. Kylie gasped. Miranda giggled. Della snorted with laughter.” KindSaidEyeGuyThreeTalkingAirFrontsStrangeColdSixLaughterBreathsBlueRelaxPacksLooking GoodAppearingBlue EyesVery DeepDeep BreathRefrigeratorsSodaMirandaSix Packs Author:C.C. Hunter
“Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.” KnowsMenMindEndsLastsThreeGrowsCommonSecretQualityCreativeSuccessfulProduceParticularAmountGeniusAchievementDrawsThirdsBreathsRemainsBrilliantGreat MenFortyMediocreFountainFatigueProdigiousSuccessful Man Author:Walter Russell
“My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.” IfsLoveShouldStatesShowsBodyPainPassionThreePleasureAnimalCommonBrainDegreesAmbitionSightBreathsTeethSensationsLazinessDelightfulPearlsRelaxedMy PassionUnbearableElevenLiliesCountenanceFiberAlertnessEnticementAlertness Is Author:John Keats
“We turn, three men bound by love, by history, by circumstance, and most certainly by the awful grace of God, and together walk a narrow lane where headstones press close all around, reminding me gently of Warren Redstone’s parting wisdom, which I understand now. The dead are never far from us. They’re in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.” MenMindHeartEndsTogetherTurnsThreeWalksGraceAirCircumstancesBreathsPressesFinalsBoundsAwfulGrace Of GodPartingLanesRemindingPuffHeadstone Author:William Kent Krueger