I Quotes
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“Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.”
“Intemperance is a dangerous companion. It throws many people off their guard, betrays them to a great many indecencies, to ruinous passions, to disadvantages in fortune; makes them discover secrets, drive foolish bargains, engage in play, and often to stagger from the tavern to the stews.”
Source: Essays upon several moral subjects
“Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.”
“Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.”
Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition
“Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.”
“Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.”
“Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.”
Source: Fables of Æsop and other eminent mythologists: with morals and reflections
“Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - I
“Intended Strategy is shooting with a rifle not a shotgun”
“Intending to run ahead of everyone is not an obstacle to fall behind. Streets are full of liars.”
“Intense and passionate love can be very demanding or exhausting, for it depends on vulnerability, empathy, and emotional investment to navigate the turbulent waters with awareness. (Another empty room)”
“Intense asana practice - too much, too soon - can have detrimental effects. It can also promote a dissociation from the personal sensitivity and self awareness that I am trying to encourage. I don't want to contribute to furthering physical or psychological trauma.”
“Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.”
“Intense desire has a distracting power on a woman, just as the Siren’s physical presence does on a man.”
Source: The Art Of Seduction
“Intense fatigue or illness may also weaken the control of the cortex. Hence we find tired or sick persons responding to threats with a greater degree of undifferentiated anxiety. In psychoanalytic terms, we would speak of this as regression.”
Source: The Meaning Of Anxiety
“Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.”
Source: Red Dragon
“Intense feelings of any kind keep people with you. Some you may want, others you won't. To forget people, and you never really forget, feel indifference.”
“Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.”
“Intense love always leads to mourning.”
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives.”
Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition
“Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.”
Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader
“Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.”
Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
“Intense pain is not the limited servings on a humble plate in a poor man’s abode. That if shared with another reduces the host’s share of it. No matter how many people come in, the sufferer’s share remains the same. And it is a bowl that never runs out. One that still has enough to offer anyone who wishes to eat from it.
The source that gives you the pain shall grant you its cure. Embrace yours wholeheartedly.
For, beyond it is magic. Trust for it to unfold. And not to take anyone’s word for it. Including mine.”
Source: I Killed the Golden Goose : A COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS, THOUGHTLESSNESS, SILENCES, POEMS & SOME ‘SHOT’ STORIES
“Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.”
Source: Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
“Intense religious experiences and crisis conversions seem to be a common response when the contradictions and tragedies of life create existencial threats.”
Source: How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
“Intense ruby hues and shadowy scents, exquisite notes of plum currant, sweet and full bodied tannins... an evening reminiscent of a pleasurable touch. Wine is so enigmatic that I can't help but feel enticed. Would a glass of this cure my writer's block or will I be rendered helpless and drown in sweet misery tonight?”
“Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world.”
Source: New York City in 1979
“Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.”
Source: Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal”
“Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.”
“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”
Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida
“Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.”
“Intensity builds immensity”
“intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.”
“Intensity is a mental attitude more than a physical attitude. Many people misunderstand what intensity means. They think it means straining and sweating. No! That is a wrong meaning of the word! Intensity is to get totally involved, fully immersed and absorbed in what one is doing. Intense practice means a fast and keen mode in adjusting, correcting, and progressively proceeding.”
Source: B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Wisdom and Practice
“Intensity is all that matters in painting.”
“Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.”
“Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.”
“Intensity is the extreme application of force and strength”
“Intensity is the price of excellence.”
“Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.”
“Intensity of connection,
Depth of emotion,
Unified thoughts,
No doubts in the significance of you.”
Source: Wantin
“Intensity, secrecy, devotion, and constancy are necessary. You don’t know when death will come. Every minute keep your mind on God. Everything you want and need is right within you; seek long and seek deeply. I meditate for hours; I see no one until I am finished. You must make up your mind that you are not going to be bothered by anyone or anything. Then you won’t know time.
That is the only way to find Him. Don’t waste your time. When you are able to live in the divine consciousness, four to six hours of sleep are plenty; you will never feel tired, you will never miss sleep. Sleep is under my control; it is the same with eating. I have something infinitely greater.”
Source: Man's Eternal Quest
“Intensity-seeking is an enslavement of our own perpetuation. When we step out of the delirium of always seeking someone new, and meet the same old sad and lonely child within, our healing journey begins. Exhausting ourselves with novelty is a defense against our deepest pain, one that we cannot outrun. But once we stop and feel our losses, we can begin our healing journey and be the authentic, joyous person we were born to be.”
Source: Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
“Intensity Should Be Balanced with Sensitivity or It Will Cause Insanity”.”
“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped by the mom down the street, or in the magazine we're reading. The competition isn't just over who's a good mother--it's over who's the best. We compete with each other; we compete with ourselves. The best mothers always put their kids' needs before their own, period.”
“Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you must fight for it or go after it. Life doesn't just come to you.”
Source: The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006
“Intent and service-that is my motto.”
“Intent is a force that exists in the universe. When sorcerers (those who live of the source) beckon to intent, it comes to them and sets up the path for attainment, which means that sorcerers always accomplish what they set out to do.”