"For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth." Sanskrit Proverb

"Breathing is the dance of life, uniting all livings things in a necessary symbiotic life-support system. We live on the exhaled oxygen of plants; plants live on our exhaled carbon dioxide." Lee Holden

"Wisdom is like the breath. We have to replenish it constantly." Earon Davis

"When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world." B.K.S. Iyengar

"The fact is that when we focus on the breath, we are focusing on the life force. Life begins with our first breath and will end after our last. To contemplate breathing is to contemplate life itself." Larry Rosenberg, Breath by Breath

"Every breath reveals interdependence with the environment. We live in an ocean of energy." Lee Holden

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." Etty Hillesum

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit." John Updike

"
...as long as you're breathing, there's more right with you than wrong with you."Jon Kabat-Zinn

"When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath." Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika