“I inhale hope with every breath I take.”
Sharon Kay Penman book When Christ and His Saints Slept
Source: When Christ and His Saints Slept
These Times strike Monied Worldlings.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Every gift of noble origin
Is breathed upon by Hope’s perpetual breath.
“I inhale hope with every breath I take.”
Sharon Kay Penman book When Christ and His Saints Slept
Source: When Christ and His Saints Slept
“Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.”
Amit Ray (1960) Indian author
Meditation:Insights and Inspirations (2010) https://books.google.com/books?id=s2ctBgAAQBAJ,
“every breath is yours, beloved
every breath is yours”
Mike Scott (1958) songwriter, musician
"Every Breath Is Yours"
Universal Hall (2003)
“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1 March 1838); published in The Letters of Margaret Fuller vol. I, p. 327, , edited by Robert N. Hudspeth (1983).
Context: There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see — I think that is enough to say about them...
“Spira, spera.
(breathe, hope)”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
Variant: Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life".
Michael Crichton book The Lost World
Seventh Configuration "Departure"
Source: The Lost World (1995)
Context: A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer and better fantasies. And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. You see all of us together? That's real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.