“Ardently alert means that when the mind is staying with the breath, you try to be as sensitive as possible in adjusting it to make it feel good, and in monitoring the results of your efforts. Try long breathing to see how it feels. Try short breathing, heavy breathing, light breathing, deep, shallow. The more refined you can make your awareness, the better the meditation goes because you can make the breath more and more refined, a more and more comfortable place for the mind to stay. Then you can let that sense of comfort spread throughout the body. Think of the breath not simply as the air coming in and out the lungs, but as the flow of energy throughout the whole body. The more refined your awareness, the more sensitive you can be to that flow. The more sensitive you are, the more refined the breath becomes, the more gratifying, the more absorbing it becomes as a place to stay.”

“Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.”

“See them together and you will feel a force that will take your breath away.”

“If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.”

“Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.”

“Don't waste the breath to save your face, When you have done your best, And even more is asked of you, Let fate decide the rest.”

“Life is not measured by the breathes you take, but by the moments that take your breathe away.”

“When we feel overwhelmed by all the suffering in the world, or just drained by the stress of the day, do this. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and know that the very breath you are taking is the same miracle of life that pervades all creation. He who gives you this breath, despite your anxieties, fears and pain, knows you. He knows you better than you will ever understand yourself. Breathe in, breathe out. You are experiencing the miracle. The most amazing miracle of all. The gift of life. All things will find harmony in this knowing, in this, is the whisper of not only all creation, but of the Creator.”

“You can only dream and breathe while you are asleep. But making money in your sleep, that is pure Capitalism at its highest form.”

“Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”