Top 27 Vital Breath Quotes
#1. 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
#3. Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
Laozi
#4. 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
#5. All things carry yin and embrace yang. They reach harmony by blending with the vital breath.
Laozi
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
Oswald Chambers
#9. Letting the mind control the vital breath is called force.
Laozi
#10. Truth is the vital breath of Beauty; Beauty the outward form of Truth.
Grace Aguilar
#11. While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes
#12. 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
#13. 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
#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. The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement.
John McCarthy
#16. Usually the more money that something takes to make, the less interesting it's forced to become.
Don Hertzfeldt
#17. 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
#18. I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
Kate Smith
#19. If we look deeply at life, we realise that the benefits we receive from society are largely attributable to their location. Benefits are local to the areas that we live in: the roads we drive on, the stores we shop at, and the services we use.
Martin Adams
#20. I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.
Deepak Chopra
#21. What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts?
The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.
Michael Herr
#22. Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath.
Robert Pinsky
#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. A manuscript not submitted is a book not published.
Dan Poynter
#26. 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
#27. 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
