Causes Quote by Anita Shreve

“The more we take refuge in distraction, the more habituated we become to mere stimulation and the more desensitized to delight. We lose our…

— Tony Reinke

“I can't breathe when I think about the things I want to do to you, and I breathe too fast when I think about…

— L.J. Shen

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate,…

— Boris Pasternak

“A desire of desires: the melancholy.”

— Anonymous

“The anaesthetic effect of habit being destroyed, I would begin to think - and to feel - such melancholy things.”

— Marcel Proust

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

— Michele Jaffe

“When eagerness and passion vanish, desire is deserting a weary mind. The power of craving is reaching, then, a twilight zone: The twilight of…

— Erik Pevernagie

“In one breath, I release all negative feelings and fearful thoughts, then fill up my lungs with wonder and awe and pure, unadulterated joy.”

— Sara Baysinger

“Breath puts a sliver of light between impact and reflex. That’s the endgame of all that meditation-breathing stuff: interrupting knee-jerk impulsivity.”

— Sarah Hays Coomer

“..those soul-satisfying feelings quickly capture our attention, and we no longer wish to pay attention to physical clues. Instead, our focus is on the…

— Errol R. Fish

“Walking, talking, reading, drawing, praying, telling stories: the nourishment is there, as close as our own breath. We only have to pause a moment,…

— Christian McEwen

“Just focusing on our breath for a couple of minutes is an instant relaxation tool for the restless mind.”

— Gyalwa Dokhampa