Breaths Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim Download Open image “Breath and brevity are sisters; the long-winded is an enemy who muffles your heartbeat.” — Shirley Geok-lin Lim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Breaths Brevity Enemy Heartbeat Long
When I breathe, This sound in my chest Lonelier than the winter wind — Takuboku Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
“While noises encompass every strand of the breathing being, delved into dark silences is the barely breathing heart” — Priyansha Vashi Copy Share Image
“With breath on your side, you become alert and aware of what’s really going on, not overtaken by ego, old stories, and destructive patterns.… — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying. — Chris Bonington Copy Share Image
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Anything that breathes is, by and large, an uncertain possession and one must not put one's heart too much in it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Its not the breath that takes our moments away, its the moments that take our breath away. — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and… — Paracelsus Copy Share Image
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Free verse is chained in sentence-to-sentence links and breaks free in line breaks. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Even after the mothering dropped because my son grew up, the writing - the muse - was always the third wheel, the lowest on… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Crows appear in many of my new unpublished poems. In these walks, they take on a symbolic life apart from their irritating, undeniable, interruptive… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
People called me a tomboy. That was the term used then. I was very much someone who was comfortable in male clothing, and even… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
One day I was running around playing with my son Connor when afterwards I was sweating, tired and out of breath. I was embarrassed… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Dave Wann's recipes from his own experience in Simple Prosperity are a breath of fresh air, and just what we need for a saner… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
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… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
The river is motion, turmoil, rage. As the river flows, it wonders what it would be like to be so still, to take a… — Kekla Magoon Copy Share Image
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image