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“I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.”

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Author:Jewel

“Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.”

May Song Water Minutes Ten Singing Drinking Glasses Teeth Breathing Deep Breath Brushing Deep Breathing Brushing Your Teeth

Author:Ronee Blakley

“I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day. So, instead of waking up and going straight for my cell phone or running to the gym, I take a few deep breaths, envision what I'd like to achieve that day, then rid my mind of anything that isn't going to help me get there.”

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Author:Beth Riesgraf

“I am running on fumes, so it's time to get centered again. I start with eating healthier and cutting out caffeine - at least cutting back on caffeine. I exercise and get outside to play. I reconnect with my spiritual practice, which is daily meditation and prayer. Most importantly, I reconnect with my family and friends. If all else fails, a few deep breaths.”

“One of the hardest things I've had to learn is to let it go. At the end of the show or the end of the rehearsal day to just take a deep breath and say, "Alright, that was it. That was the day."”

Ends Shows Breaths Hardest Hardest Thing Let It Go Rehearsal Alright Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Taissa Farmiga

“We have two choices when things pile up at work or we're surrounded by energy vampires who leave us feeling depleted. We can get frantic, hyperventilate, shut down, and become reactive. Needless to say, these responses to stress just make us more stressed. Surrendered people have the ability to pause, take a deep breath, and observe.”

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Author:Judith Orloff

“I find that deep breathing and meditation help me handle practically any situation.”

Helping Situation Meditation Handle Breathing Help Me Deep Breath Deep Breathing

Author:Nathan East

“I practice yoga on a regular basis at my gym and when I travel. Yoga not only keeps me flexible, but I feel it enhance the quality of my blood cells through deep breathing. I also feel energized when I practice yoga, which helps me cope with my demanding schedule.”

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Author:Nathan East

“Just follow your gut. If you seriously believe that something is the right thing to do, if you are so convinced that your stomach is knotting up every time someone suggests an alternative way of doing all this, take a deep breath and just say, "You're wrong."”

Ifs Way Believe Breaths Convinced Alternatives Things To Do Right Thing Guts Stomach Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Joe Elliott

“If all else fails, a few deep breaths.”

Ifs Failing Breaths Deep Breath

Author:Amber Valletta

“When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.”

Feels Pieces Breaths Chocolate Overwhelmed Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Adrian Grenier

“In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.”

Heart Eye Attention Quiet Breaths Chests Inward Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Quiet Place

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.”

Simple Importance Stress Breaths Deep Breath Pausing

Author:Nikki DeLoach

“You are worthy! Let those words sink deep into your heart. You are worthy. Life can get overwhelming for us, as our busy schedules keep us on our toes. Sometimes we forget that we need to intentionally slow down, take a deep breath, and remind ourselves of our purpose, the very foundation of why we do what we do. When we neglect to quiet our souls and rest in God's amazing grace, we miss out on the intimate opportunities where God assures us of our worthiness, clarifies our purpose, and strengthens us to endure each day.”

“Even heads of our own security agency said, you know, we need to take a deep breath on this. This really doesn't seem to be happening [that Russians are trying to influence American domestic politics ].”

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Author:Jill Stein

“When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.”

Ifs Firsts Long Moments Age Lasts Felt Chance My Own Saws Scene Ocean First Time Breaths Tongue Release Plastic Brazil Deep Breath One Chance Suffocating Aquarius

Author:Sonia Braga

“I think all of us in the commentary business need to take a deep breath. And it can't be true that every single week the world is ending in some different way. And this presidency [of Donald Trump] will be judged like all presidencies - on the state of the economy and by events.”

Thinking World Way Needs Different States Economy Week Events Trump Breaths Being True Different Ways Judged Presidency Commentary Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Rich Lowry

“This country needs to take a deep breath. We are a strong, resilient nation. And the idea that the Russians hacked our election needs to be investigated. There is very little evidence at that moment except for the DNC servers.”

Needs Littles Ideas Country Moments Strong Nations Evidence Breaths Election That Moment Resilient Deep Breath Server Take A Deep Breath Hacked

Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“We have two choices when things pile up at work or we're surrounded by energy vampires who leave us feeling depleted. We can get frantic, hyperventilate, shut down, and become reactive. Needless to say, these responses to stress just make us more stressed. Surrendered people have the ability to pause, take a deep breath, and observe. Sustaining silence and circumspection are two behaviors that lead to better, healthier outcomes.”

People Feelings Choices Energy Ability Silence Behavior Stress Response Vampire Stressed Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Judith Orloff

“When I made those wild-ass comments, on stage, about then-Senator Hillary Clinton and then-senator Barack Obama, I don't know if you can grasp the degree of adrenaline and intensity and sheer over-the-top animal spirit and attitude that I live on stage. I've got to take that deep breath.”

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Author:Ted Nugent

“Everybody's got a bully pulpit now, and everybody's mad. I don't blame people for being angry and frustrated about everything. I'm old, but I'm not pulling my pants up to my tits. I take deep breaths of air when I enter a room and celebrate the fact that I'm alive.”

People Blame Mad Celebrate Frustrated Bully Deep Breath

Author:Billy West

“I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.”

Situation Ego Anxiety Bubbles Deep Breath Social Anxiety Take A Deep Breath Alter Ego

Author:Lindy Booth

“With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. It's sort of similar when you walk into an audition room, to be able to go takes deep breath and then go in real calm. It was in those ways that it really helped me.”

Real Energy Calm Excited Deep Breath

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“I feel like you have to be so precise in what you are going to say, or you can be hammered if you say it the wrong way. That part makes feel bummed out because sometimes these things can take a while to figure out. Different people formulate things in different ways and have different processes. I feel like let's just take a deep breath and not be so perfectionistic about it all.”

People Different Sometimes Like You Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously.”

Knows Way Wells Happens Nice Appreciate Breaths Good Times God Knows Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath

Author:Laura Linney

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.”

Life Inspirational Heart Inspiring My Heart Breaths Chaos Positivity Being Yourself Encouraging Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Bell Jar Deep Listening Deep Breathing

Author:Sylvia Plath

“We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.”

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Author:Julia Roberts

“Sometimes when I hear criticism of my husband, I want to come out of my seat and clock somebody. But you learn to take a deep breath.”

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Author:Ann Romney

“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.”

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Author:Jonathan Sacks

“My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.”

Ends Mother Tragedy Breaths Get Up Sheets Laundry Deep Breath Hang Ups Take A Deep Breath

Author:Patti Smith

“Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.”

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Author:Barbara Walters

“I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.”

Trying Used Normal Breaths Chaos Calm Complaining Relax Deep Breath Calm Down Take A Deep Breath

Author:Tom Welling

“Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office lockdown—like a beach ball on water. The next time a problem arises in your life, take a deep breath, let out a sigh, and replace the thought Oh no! with the thought Okay.”

“I've never said this to a girl before." I bit my lip, waiting. "Well..." He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you.”

Wells Said Girl Fighting Evil Bits Waiting Breaths Lips Not Sure Deep Breath Fighting Evil

Book:Peeled

Source: Peeled

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

World Hard Reason Happiness Laughing Breaths Lovely Stomach Bad Day Deep Breath Perks Perks Of A Wallflower

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no tidemark: there was no more dirt to rub away. He took a deep breath and shivered. He was David. Everything else was washed away, the camp, its smell, its touch--and now he was David, his own master, free--free as long as he could remain so.”

Long Hands Left Water Sun Masters Breaths Smell Knees Camps Dirt Deep Breath Drop Of Water

Author:Anne Holm

“I was usually filled with a sense of something like shame until I'd remember that wonderful line of Blake's- that we are here to learn to endure the beams of love- and I would take a long deep breath and force these words out of my strangulated throat: "Thank you.”

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Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.”

Mean Said Causes Hurt Breaths Something Better Hurt Me Deep Breath I Trust You

Author:Avi

“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.”

Knows Way Looks Eye Gone Taken Breaths Distance Gossip Anxious Deep Breath

Book:Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization

Source: Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization

“The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.”

Long Moments Beautiful Names Sun Magic Air Mystery Fields Color Red Window Breaths Stuck Valleys Purple Grapes Deep Breath Dusk Grove Melons Burgundy Tangerines

Book:On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.”

“I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.”

Should Taken Should Have Breaths Deep Breath

Book:Amrita

Source: Amrita

“We clear the harbor and the wind catches her sails and my beautiful ship leans over ever so gracefully, and her elegant bow cuts cleanly into the increasing chop of the waves. I take a deep breath and my chest expands and my heart starts thumping so strongly I fear the others might see it beat through the cloth of my jacket. I face the wind and my lips peel back from my teeth in a grin of pure joy.”

“It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur.”

Eye Breaths Filled Edges Noses His Eyes Necks Fur Deep Breath Soaking Timbre Sharp Edges

Author:Kathi Appelt

“The early cars already are drawing deep breaths past my door. And last night's phrases sick with lack of basis are still writhing on my floor.”

Stills Lasts Past Night Doors Car Sick Bases Breaths Drawing Phrases Last Night Deep Breath

Author:Fiona Apple

“She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.”

Trying Stills Given Parent Rooms Grief Periods Stones Breaths Edges Sat Folds Given Up Couches Curls Deep Breath

Author:Alice Sebold

“I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.”

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Author:John Patrick Shanley

“I took a deep breath, 'I took the nahlrout because I didn't want to faint. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.' It sounded ugly to say it so starkly, but it was the truth. I looked at him defiantly.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Hurt Enemy Needed Safe Breaths Ugly Best Way I've Learned Hurt Me Deep Breath

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry look. "Don't be stupid." That explains why you freaked out on Apollo's bus. Why you didn't want to talk about it." She took a deep breath. Then she brushed the pine needles out of her hair. "If you tell anyone, I swear—" No, no," I said. "That's cool. It's just… the daughter of Zeus, the Lord of the Sky, afraid of heights?”

Ifs Want Looks Said Eye Lord Sky Stupid Hair Mountain Daughter Breaths Angry Height Bus Usual Swear Her Eyes Apollo Needles Deep Breath Zeus Thalia Grace

Book:The Titan's curse

Source: The Titan's curse

“Standing Here My entire world far beneath my feet, I should be filled with pride. Instead, I feel overwhelmed by a sense of defeat. Suddenly it comes to me, toes tempted to test the ledge, that there is a way out of this. Clam surety flows through my veins, and as I turn to wave good-bye, I wonder if it will hurt or if a single person will cry at my funeral. I take a deep breath, a final taste of sweet mountain air. I conjure Leona, Emily. Move my feet closer. Closer There's Grandma One, Grandma Two, and their spouses, waiting for me. I see Dad. Cara. Mommy. I screw up my courage, step over”

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