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“Three never-ending days I've spent in this armchair, walking a knife's edge between sanity and madness, studying every rise and fall of her chest just to be sure she's still breathing.

My lungs only fill when hers do, and the time between my heartbeats is filled with sharp, all consuming fear.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“Neil leaned forward, his own breathing strange, a look on his face I could not understand. It was how I looked at sunsets or fireworks, my expression on the edge of the Grand Canyon.”
― Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden

“As the air gives us life, remember you are also giving life to the air”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“His breaths were silent, his gaze was steady, and his eyes were hollow.”
― Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

“Loving you is like breathing. It’s impossible for me to stop.”
― Bernardo Moya, A Man Evolving: Confessions about monogamy, passion and broken hearts.

“Breathing in and breathing out is a practice of freedom. When we focus our attention on our breath, we release everything else, including worries or fears about the future and regrets or sorrows about the past.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Communicating

“To breathe! Oh poem we cannot see!
Pure space exchanged continually
For one’s own being. Counterpoise,
In which I come to be, a rhythm.

Unique wave, whose
Gathering sea I am;
Space won by that least expended
Of all possible seas.

How many of these locations of voids
Were already inward, were within me.
So many of the flows of air are
Like a son to me.

Do you apprehend me, Air? - You,
Already full of my former places?
You, who have been smooth bark,
Curve and leaf of my words?”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“You should breathe through your mouth as often as you eat through your nose!

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Consequences of chronic mouth breathing:

- Face distortion because mouth breathing affects the facial profile. John Mew who pioneered the field of Orthotropics found that the face becomes long and teeth become bucky over time in habitual mouth breathers.

- Dental crowding

- Tooth decay: This is because mouth becomes very dry overnight from mouth breathing. After 3-4 hours of mouth breathing, the mouth pH becomes more acidic. When teeth are acidic (< pH 5.4 ) they start to deteriorate and tend towards decay.

- Anxiety, because when breathing through the mouth, the sympathetic nervous system is activated. The vagus nerve connects the brain to the gut and regulates our stress response. Engaging in relaxation and nose-breathing can help with vagal toning and regulation of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems.

- Gut dysbiosis because of the sympathetic activation making parasympathetic digestion less effective.

- Brain fog

- Learning difficulties

- Night time bedwetting in children”
― Vijaya Molloy

“Small airways disease was diagnosed in me after I spent a decade breathing industrial and medical gas in my professional astronomy jobs.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Our memories are lodged in my mind like pieces of broken glass that hurt when I breathe.”
― P.S. Scott, The Prince and the Thief

“Use the act of breathing to shape air into sounds that take on the context of language that lifts and transports those who hear it, takes them beyond what they think and how they feel and empowers them to think and know even more. We’re all storytellers, really. That’s what we do. That is our power as human beings. Not to tell people how to think and feel and therefore know - but through stories allow them to discover questions within themselves. Turn off your TV and your devices and talk to each other. Share stories. Be joined, transported and transformed.”
― Richard Wagamese, Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations

“I will tell you the purpose of life, but you must take this information and you must use it. But let a breeze pass between your learning and your reaction. Let a quiet moment slow your heart before excitement enters. I’m going to tell you and I want you to stay in that moment. Try to catch it. Your entire life is made up of memories and the smallest piece of RIGHT NOW. Here it is:

the purpose of life is to find an empty space and use it.

Now feel the breeze. Breathe.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Breathing they say is good for you. It's yoga. In Tara's case, it's just pain. They remained silent for the rest of the drive.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Cooldown.'

'You sound eager.'

She met his stare. 'I...' She swallowed. Hated herself for balking and forced herself to say, 'The breathing makes my head stop being so...' Horrible. Awful. Miserable. 'Loud.'

'Ah.' Understanding washed over his face. 'Mine too.'

For a moment, she held his gaze, watched the wind tug at the strands of his shoulder-length hair. The instinct to touch the sable locks had her pressing her palms to the mat, as if physically restraining herself.

'Right,' Cassian cleared his throat. 'Cooldown.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Many children with behavioural issues are diagnosed with ADHD based on subjective symptoms, often without anyone asking about their sleep. They are medicated with powerful stimulant medications with potentially serious side effects.”
― Shereen Lim, Breathe, Sleep, Thrive: Discover how airway health can unlock your child’s greater health, learning, and potential

“Every inhale is a welcomed greeting and every exhale a farewell, a gentle inward hug for my organs”
― Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being

“When you sit down, the first thing to do is to become aware of your breathing. Becoming aware of your breathing is the first step in taking care of yourself. Becoming aware of your in-breath and out-breath, you can see how your breath moves through your body. You begin to take care of your body and your mind, and you begin to find joy in the very simple act of breathing. Every in-breath can bring joy; every out-breath can bring calm and relaxation. This is a good enough reason to sit. We don't need to sit with an intention like getting smarter or becoming enlightened. We can sit just to enjoy sitting and breathing.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit

“Smiling and breathing practices are synergetic and yield more than the sum for some”
― Offer Dan

“Luck is crucial from the first inhale we take as we emerge from our mother's womb to the last exhale we make at the end of 'tour-de-life.”
― Offer Dan

“Being at peace with my past is reflected in my present breathing.”
― Offer Dan

“Kissing with a mouth-breather can give the impression that one is about to make love with a vacuum cleaner”
― Offer Dan

“Don Juan said that the sorcerers of antiquity, the inventors of the recapitulation, viewed breathing as a magical, life-giving act and used it, accordingly, as a magical vehicle; the exhalation, to eject the foreign energy left in them during the interaction being recapitulated and the inhalation to pull back the energy that they themselves left behind during the interaction.”
― Carlos Castaneda, The Art of Dreaming

“When learning becomes as unthinkable as breathing, the spirit grows.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Breath is a beautiful way to bring focus, space, attention, and information to a specific area within the body and the psyche.”
― Gwen Juvenal, Our New Story: Guides in the Garden Volume 1

“By controlling our breath, we can willfully influence the brain and the autonomic nervous system and litterally change our mind-body state. By changing the pattern of our breathing, we change the pattern of the information being sent to the brain. In other words, how often, how fast, and how much you inflate your lungs directly affects the brain and how it operates.”
― Dan Brulé, Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond

“Every physiological, and emotional state has a corresponding breathing pattern. When you change one, the other changes. Therefore, Conscious Breathing techniques have the potential to transform the quality of your life on every level and on a day-to-day basis.”
― Dan Brulé

“Conscious breathing can increase heart rate variability, which improves a range of symptoms such as stress, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, fatigue, obesity, depression, and aging.”
― Dan Brulé, Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond

“Breathing is not just a physiological process, it’s a tool for self-regulation and enhanced performance. Individuals can improve their learning, recovery, and overall well-being by understanding how to use breathing techniques effectively.”
― David Durand, B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond

“Our breaths should be slow, long, deep, fine, even and tranquil”
― Indian and Chinese wisdom

“With my head against his chest, as breath entered his body, I remembered that I was breathing too. How long had it been since I’d taken a deep breath?”
― S.D.G., Naked