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21 " For most of my life I have thought of grace as a hope of a bright tomorrow in spite of the darkness of today--and this is true. In this way we are all like Pamela, walking a road to grace--hoping for mercy. What we fail to realize is that grace is more than our destination, it is the journey itself, manifested in each breath and with each step we take. Grace surrounds us, whirls about us like the wind, falls on us like rain. Grace sustains us on our journeys, no matter how perilous they may be and, make no mistake, they are all perilous. We need not hope for grace, we merely need to open our eyes to its abundance. Grace is all around us, not just in the hopeful future but in the miracle of now. "
22 " A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reason she had forced herself to keep her distance from love. Why she had given up on trusting someone not to hurt her. Because a broken heart, no matter how figurative, was an unbearable pain to endure. And sometimes, no matter how much you want to be with someone, there’s never a guarantee that they want you back. "
― Courtney Giardina , Holding on to Georgia
23 " The tattoo artist inflicts pain and I take it. With each breath I count to one again. Each inhale, each exhale, time passes in the smallest of pieces, and pieces still smaller than those.This is how you count a life. This is how you go through it. Each second of hurt is a second that's already passed, one you never have to go through again. I have counted in pieces that small, when walking from the bed to the fridge seemed an insurmountable goal. I have counted my breaths, my steps, my eye-blinks, my hiccups, the tiny pulse in my thumb. And when I started getting tattooed, two of the things I used to need were gone: to write on myself, and to find irrelevant things to count. A second of intense pain is the most profound thing you can live through. And another, and another, and another, and then you know what it is to feel, and to struggle through that feeling one small agonizing increment at a time, and if you know that, you know what it is to live with mental illness. "
24 " While the ingrates duke-it-out about the true God, you take each breath in holy gratitude. "
― Bryant McGill , Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
25 " Every damn breath hurt like hell, but I kept Breathing too. I told myself it would be a privilege to breathe through pain like that for the rest of my life - just knowing each breath was a gift. "
― Rachel Van Dyken
26 " As I turned over the last page, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. But who would see this light, this small dot among infinite stars? I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. How small it was, how brief. Brief, brief, but inside me now, which the stars could never be. "
― Louise Glück , Faithful and Virtuous Night
27 " Mandy’s chest heaved more with each breath as he transitioned from a kiss into a long, slow, gentle suck. She could feel her nipples harden as the sensations of pleasure coursed from her breasts throughout her entire body. This wasn’t the same as when she nursed the baby it was like the difference between having something bump up against your back and having someone massage it. "
28 " She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. "
― Holly Black , Tithe (Modern Faerie Tales, #1)
29 " Your life is a sum of counted breaths.With each breath that passesa part of life is lost. That which gives life brings death every moment nearer,and your caravan is led by onewho will not jest with you. "
― Bernard Lewis , Music of a Distant Drum: Classical Arabic, Persian, Turkish & Hebrew Poems
30 " Whoever and whatever you envision yourself to be, you be it! Your destiny is a matter of you overcoming your environment and deciding you shall become who you want to be. The first rule you need to know is FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION! Each day the whole world conspires to beat you, bend you, break you and mold you into a shape of its creation and turn you into another of its mass produced puppets. The world wants to take away your individuality, your uniqueness, with each breath you take. Well Fuck ALL THAT! Every day you make damn sure you wake up in the morning, give thanks to God for another day, get out of bed and say it loud like you proud to the world - “I am who I am, deal with it, Bitch! "
