The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating.  ~Proverb

Breath is Spirit.  The act of breathing is Living.  ~Author Unknown

The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.  Erma Bombeck

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life.  ~Giovanni PapiniDCMOO

If you woke up breathing, congratulations!  You have another chance.  ~Andrea Boydston

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.  ~Laurence Binyon

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?  ~Mary Oliver

To live is not breathing it is action.  ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water.  By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere.  If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist.  In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss.  ~Alexander Lowen

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.  ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Freedom is strangely ephemeral.  It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.  ~William E. Simon

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted.  Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.  ~Rumi

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.  ~L. Frank Baum

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

Walking through the house at night is wonderful to me; a symphony of breath, each person a separate instrument as they collectively breathe in time to the metronome of life itself.  ~Edwin Leap, www.edwinleap.com

You know that our breathing is the inhaling and exhaling of air.  The organ that serves for this is the lungs that lie round the heart, so that the air passing through them thereby envelops the heart.  Thus breathing is a natural way to the heart.  And so, having collected your mind within you, lead it into the channel of breathing through which air reaches the heart and, together with this inhaled air, force your mind to descend into the heart and to remain there.  ~Nicephorus the Solitary

Focusing on the act of breathing clears the mind of all daily distractions and clears our energy enabling us to better connect with the Spirit within.  ~Author Unknown

The best things in life are nearest:  Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.  Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson