"Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world."
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"Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?"
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"When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too."
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"At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover."
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"Shallow breathing is the root of all evil but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls."
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"I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
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"There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity."
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"Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities."
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"All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain."
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"One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine."
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"You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides and rejoins behind you. The trees you planted in childhood have grown Too heavy. You cannot bring them along. Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold."
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"I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix."
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"Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event."
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"And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death."
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"Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out."
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"The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."
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"Working safely is like breathing - if you don't, you die."
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"When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel."
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"What do you think? I'm not a starfish or a pepper tree. I'm a living, breathing human being. Of course I've been in love."
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"In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing."
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