#tens

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#balance #harmony #intensity #matter #order

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#call #closer #commitment #concentration #emotion

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#cost #episodes #experience #feeling #had

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#better #better now #few #i #intensely

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. ↗

— Joan Miro

#box #certain #cigarette #contains #human

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#forget #intensely #memory #nothing #thing

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? ↗

— James Montgomery

#blue #came #dazzling #flower #hue

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#album #already #area #california #down

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#goes #intensive #play #player #sufficient

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California. ↗

— John Moody

#consolidation #construction #dates #days #discovery