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• Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Sleep, Two, Eden

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• We name one thing and then another. That’s how time enters poetry. Space, on the other hand, comes into being through the attention we pay to each word. The more intense our attention, the more space, and there’s a lot of space inside words.

  Charles Simic

  Hands, Names, Space

  Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.40, Copper Canyon Press

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• One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Men, Littles

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

  David Ives

  Play, Love Relationship, Existentialism

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• That intense faith in another world, that intense hatred for this world, that intense power of renunciation, that intense faith in God, that intense faith in the immortal soul, is in you. I challenge anyone to give it up. You cannot. You may try to impose upon me by becoming materialists, by talking materialism for a few months, but I know what you are; if I take you by the hand, back you come as good theists as ever were born. How can you change your nature?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hands, Talking, Giving

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• Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Personality, Growth, Too Much

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

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• In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Husband, Heart

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.630, Manonmani Publishers

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• I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Knowing, Quests

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• God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.224, Velvet Element Books

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• Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts and it results from the battles we wage against our thoughts as we futilely try to get rid of our historie.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Pain, Self Esteem, Suicidal

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• ... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

  Laini Taylor

  Taken, Healing, Chocolate

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• We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

  Alfred Kastler

  Light, Transition, Atoms

  Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”

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• If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

  David Keirsey

  Giving Up, Design, Trying

  David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

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• I have never intended in any of my films to sell violence or to glorify it. Even in the most intense action sequences in my films, there is a message about how evil violence is.

  John Woo

  Evil, Messages, Violence

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• When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form a plan) running counter to all tradition, I think I may say in answer, that it was only my intense preoccupation with the problem of the blockade which helped me to do so.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Running, Moving, Thinking

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• Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Psychics, Crow

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.307, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

  Dave Ramsey

  Legacy, Passionate, Matter

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• For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Strong, Pain, Self

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• The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart center; it opens you more. In fact, when you refrain from absorbing the energy around you, you’ll remain clear and grounded, you’ll be able to easily access your creative and intuitive channel, and you’ll be able to choose to use the messages you receive from your Higher Self.

  Sonia Choquette

  Heart, Cutting, Emotional

  FaceBook post by Sonia Choquette from Jan 28, 2014

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• When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.

  Oswald Chambers

  Holiness, His Love, Firsts

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.314, Discovery House

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• The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass.

  Thomas Merton

  Humble, Glasses, Light

  Thomas Merton (1972). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.189, New Directions Publishing

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• The beet is the most intense of vegetables

  Tom Robbins

  Vegetables, Beets, Radishes

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.1, Bantam

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• A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others.

  Milton Katselas

  Warrior, Knows

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• In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about depression and suicide and mental health and YA dealing with such intense matters. What I haven’t seen discussed is kittens.

  Gayle Forman

  Suicide, Book, Matter

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jan 30, 2015

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• Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.

  Ralph Marston

  Reality, Feelings, Needs

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