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«I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.»
Author: Shakira (Singer) | Keywords: intensity, unselfishness
«It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable»
«Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation. Business has destroyed the very knowledge in us of all other natural forces except business.»
«In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.»
«Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.»
«Herd pressure is to be judged by two things : first, its intensity, and second, its direction»
«A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.»
«Genius is intensity»
Author: Honore de Balzac (Novelist) | About: Genius | Keywords: intensity
«Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity»
«For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected.»