FIND BEAUTY IN INTENSITY NOW

Genius is intensity.

-- Honore de Balzac

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

-- Ezra Pound

I want to live every moment totally and intensely.

-- Omar Sharif

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

-- Stendhal

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

-- Mother Teresa

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

-- Charles Eames

No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the intensity only gets stronger and stronger. We cannot escape these spiritual hungers.

-- Ravi Zacharias

The way to live well is to feel intensely.

-- Marty Rubin

There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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IMAGE CREDITS:

1. Image: by Omar Eduardo. Ay.
2. Image: by Olin Gilbert. Nature's Celestial Splashing of Color.
3. Image: by Bill Gracey. Working in a Field of Color.
4. Image: Courtesy of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Ant Nebula: Fast Winds From a Dying Star (NASA, Chandra, 2006).
5. Image: by Dale Chumbley. Insane Sunset.
6. Image: by Henk Sijgers. Day's End Erupted Into the Skies.
7. Image: by Ken Douglas. Ice Reflection 1.
8. Image: by Caruba. Trollstigen Mountain Road in Norway.
9. Image: by Ernesto Borges. California Beauty.
10. Image: by Myri Bonnie. Arc-en-ciel / Rainbow.
11. Image: by Vern. Rock and Ice.
12. Image: Courtesy of Pexels. Mountain Peaks with Snow.
13. Image: by BN App - Download now!
14. Image: by Christopher Mooney.