“The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. Both assumptions are false: both of them must be accepted as true if we are to go on eating and working and loving, and are to keep open a few breathing holes for the human spirit.” PeopleIfsHumansSpiritHuman NatureGoes OnEternalEatingAcceptedHolesBreathingBehaveAssumptionImmortalHuman Spirit Book:Two Cheers for Democracy Source: Two Cheers for Democracy
“Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.” IfsFeelsWritingReasonGoes OnBreathing Author:Paul Auster
“It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is on you, and you are basically choking them gradually like a boa constrictor and once you've got them, the pressure goes on and they have to submit or they are going to stop breathing. It happened to me early in my career, and I panicked, and gave in, I tapped out too early. I learned a lot from that. I learned from it, learned how to do the move better, learned how to avoid it being done to me.” DoneBeautifulMovingSportsPowerfulCareersHappenedGoes OnPressureBreathingMost PowerfulSubmitBeautiful ThingsSubmissionChokeBeing Done Author:Conor McGregor
“When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I just go into a tailspin. I'm thinking: what do I wish?, and I just can't seem to think about anything. Then I close my eyes, take a deep breath and there comes my wish. I don't know how to explain what goes on inside of me, but that's what happens: breathing is the key to understand what's really important to me.” ThinkingKnowsImportantSeemsHappensEyeWishKnow HowKeysGoes OnBreathsBlowBreathingCakeCandleDeep BreathMy BirthdayMy WishTake A Deep BreathBirthday CakeMake A Wish Author:Kristen Stewart
“I think I would have had an easier time of it if I had had training much earlier. Because when I got to the training, it was in my late 30s and I already probably had every bad habit a singer could have. In fact, it still goes on. It's un-training those habits and retraining new ones - the breathing, the relaxation, the tongue, the lungs, the everything.” IfsThinkingStillsFactsGoes OnHabitEasierLateTrainingTongueSingersBreathingRelaxationLungsBad HabitsEasier Times Author:Joan Baez
“I'm really into the basic idea of Kriya Yoga. The breathing that goes on in Kriya. Other than that, it's just communicating with the universe and getting the inspiration for different kinds of breath. Basically, I'm into the movement of breath and the shapes of breath. The different kinds of sequences of breath. I like doing that a lot.” KindIdeasDifferentInspirationUniverseMovementGoes OnShapesYogaBreathsCommunicateBreathingDifferent KindsSequence Author:Alex Ebert
“I bring my attention to my hands on the steering wheel and notice how the chatter in my mind begins to fall away as my breathing slows. I'm awake and alive, simply driving the car going where I need to go, on time and in time. A still point of the turning world. With that awareness, I bring my attention into my body, and the body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.” WorldNeedsMindStillsMomentsBodyHandsFallAttentionAliveAwarenessCarGoes OnDrivingBreathingAwakeWheelsPresent MomentTimelessDoorwaysChatterSteeringLive Simply Author:Roger Housden