Breathing Space Quotes

#1. My style can't be held within a pixel medium. Like, it needs to be performed in a living, breathing space. People need to have all their senses ready to take on my comedy, and unfortunately, TV alienates at least their sense of touch, taste, smell.

Kristen Schaal

#2. 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.

Colleen McCullough

#3. 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.

William Hazlitt

#4. You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Giacomo Leopardi

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

Maimonides

#6. I feel a strong hand caress my inner elbow and his lips at my ear. "You look good dancing."
I turn and Alex and I share the same breathing space. It's hard to keep my eyes away from his mouth. "Really? I didn't realize you saw me."
He narrows his eyes briefly. "I see you.

Isabelle Joshua

#7. 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.

Sissela Bok

#8. 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.

Twyla Tharp

#9. All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

Margaret Mitchell

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

Jack Higgins

#11. We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.

James E. Faust

#12. 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 I'm not working.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#13. 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.

Robert Barry

#14. 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. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue.

John Berger

#15. 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.

Anthony Holden

#16. 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.

Jeanette Winterson

#17. 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.

Albert Camus

#18. 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.

Sherwood Anderson

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

Richard M. Nixon

#20. The ignorant man sees only the unsurmountable wall of death, hiding, seemingly forever, his cherished friends. But the man of unattachment, he who loves others as expressions of the Lord, understands that at death the dear ones have only returned for a breathing-space of joy in Him. The

Paramahansa Yogananda

#21. I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

Philip Kerr

#22. 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.

Penelope Wilcock

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

Louise Imogen Guiney

#24. One step too late.
Another disappointment,
breathing in crawl space,
leads to another messy ending.

Ben Bruce

#25. don't you see how
hard speaking is for me?
how hard
breathing is?

don't you see that
I'm a negative space
cut from the
universe and
when you ask
me to breathe
i am trying to
will myself
into
being?

Darshana Suresh

#26. I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

Zachary Quinto

#27. Meditation is to understand that one breath, which connects all beings.

Amit Ray

#28. The deeper and slower your breathing becomes, the more space you will create inside you. Eventually, it will become so big that all your thoughts and emotions look trivial in the vastness of your inner space.

Ilchi Lee

#29. And most of all we smile at each other as if we can't believe how happy we feel just being together just breathing in the same space.

Alice J. Wisler

#30. The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.

Brooke Burgess

#31. I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Erica Jong

#32. Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.

Tara Brach

#33. Time and space recede and blast away like a universe expanding forever outward, and leaving only darkness and the two of us on its periphery, darkness and breathing and touch.

Lauren Oliver

#34. Each day we stood almost shoulder to shoulder, occupying the same space, breathing the same air, but we remained strangers.

M.A. Stacie

#35. Her legs were gone, lost in the tangle of dark alien webs; she reminded Miller of a mermaid who had traded her fins for a space station. Her eyes were closed, but he could see them shifting and dancing under the lids. And she was breathing.

James S.A. Corey

#36. He was breathing a little faster himself, his heart pounding as he leaned in a tiny bit more. He hovered just shy of her lips before braving the final space between them and pressing his mouth to hers. He knew immediately from the first taste of her that one tiny kiss wasn't going to be enough.

Cat Johnson

#37. There's a reason why stars can only exist in the sky
they're just rockets of light traveling through space, so it feels right to admire their form from a distance. People, solid and living and breathing together in the same world, are not meant to be surround by that much darkness.

Katie Kacvinsky

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

Michael Bassey Johnson

#39. Not just beautiful, though
the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

Haruki Murakami

#40. Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.

Willow Smith

#41. What life is this? Living in a world of hatred and lies, breathing the same air the dead breathed once, knowing we will wake up one day and find ourselves gone from time and space, and yet we still breathe the air without trembling from the thought.

Nour Zikra

#42. It looked as though [the stars] were breathing to some never-ending slow, deep rhythm. They breathed & watched as the world came & went. ...For them, the earth was one more island world in the immeasurable ocean of outer space, its inhabitants microscopically small

Nina George

#43. Several things can throw me into that space where I feel energetic and peaceful at the same moment - often things that force me to utilize all my senses. Sunshine does it for me. Music for sure, singing, and dancing. Conscious breathing. Nature. Silence. Meditation. Sport is a great one.

Richard Brancatisano

#44. Aren't we straying as though through an infinite nothing? Isn't empty space breathing at us?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#45. When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile

Ronald J. Garan Jr.

#46. By simply relaxing, being quiet, breathing and having a heartfelt intention to help another being, you create a sacred space. In this space, all things are possible.

Kathleen Prasad

#47. Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.

Margaret Heffernan

#48. Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

Eckhart Tolle