Vital As Breath Quotes

#1. Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world around us.

Christina Engela

#2. Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.

Grace Aguilar

#3. The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.

Larry Dossey

#4. Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Albert Camus

#5. Prayer is indeed the Christian's vital breath and native air.

J. Oswald Sanders

#6. Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

#7. Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?

Laozi

#8. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The

George Orwell

#9. All forms that perish other forms supply,
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die)
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.

Alexander Pope

#10. All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.

Laozi

#11. walking, as it were, on a razor's edge,

Sharad Pawar

#12. The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#13. The spirit-world around this world of sense
Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense
A vital breath of more ethereal air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#14. Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

Charles Studd

#15. Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

Oswald Chambers

#16. Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.

Laozi

#17. When I have the urge to get back to coaching, I lie down and wait until it passes.

Hank Stram

#18. There is no sin that is a match for God's grace.

Timothy Keller

#19. I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

Brian Chippendale

#20. While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

Charles Evans Hughes

#21. Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.

Robert Pinsky

#22. Pneuma is the power - the vital breath - that animates animals and humans. It is, in Dylan Thomas's phrase, "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower," and is present even in lifeless materials like stone or metal as the energy that holds the object together - the

Marcus Aurelius

#23. Poetry should be vital
either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.

Augustine Birrell

#24. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath.

Grace Gealey

#25. Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

Darlene Arden

#26. Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.

Anne Rice

#27. Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.

Mike D

#28. I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered. Yoga is vital because it keeps me in full awareness and connection with my breath. I keep a gratitude log, which helps to remind me of all the blessings I experience daily.

Grace Gealey

#29. Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.

David Vann

#30. When one gives undivided attention to the (vital) breath, and brings it to the utmost degree of pliancy, he can become as a (tender) babe.

Lao-Tzu