In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
We call it 3HO, an organization of healthy, happy, and holy people. It has no membership charge, no presidents, and at this… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don't understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything… — David Platt Copy Share Image
And so you have a life that you are living only now, now and now and now, gone before you can speak… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“He took deep breaths. He wanted to sleep. At least in sleeping, he could find a kind of peace. At least in… — Alex London Copy Share Image
Whenever poetry and politics are mentioned in the same breath, we tend to miss the point entirely - as I often have… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
He's a tremendous breath of fresh air. The things he [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
And she [Margaret Thatcher] also had a sort of a way, like a railroad train, of going, taking a breath and starting… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact, everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using not… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Dropt tears have hastened your decay And brought you one step nigher death; And you have heard, unthrilled, unmoved, The music of… — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death -… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Swords have been my life, not books. But every child knows that the Targaryens have always danced too close to madness. Your… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The energy that moves life is the force of the Feminine. She is unstoppable. She is the source of all life, the… — David Deida Copy Share Image
Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
You've got to appeal to the pride in people. When a woman is flabby and soft, she's unattractive. When you married a… — Jack LaLanne Copy Share Image
Free driving is like an extreme sports version of snorkeling, ... That's about 50 feet deep. And basically what you do is… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Harry Reid was talking about soup lines, and Hillary Clinton was talking about the economy being on the verge of collapse. Yet,… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Krishnamacharya's personal practice was always with long deep breathing and mental focus. Observe the position of his head, the lower abdomen and… — A. G. Mohan Copy Share Image
The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I admit that I sometimes climbed on other fellows' backs. But I used to watch the flight of the ball perhaps more… — Roy Cazaly Copy Share Image