Heightened Quotes

130 quotes by 119 authors

Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing… — V.S. Naipaul
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingâ€”they are not all bad. Those devils have been my… — Stephen Fry
paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness — John Lennon
We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each… — John Ortberg
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut… — Sylvia Plath
Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This experience of heightened… — Erich Fromm
â€¢ Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks… — Marya Hornbacher
... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking… — Jane Austen
I loved her for the way she embraced the unknown, how she opened herself up to every experience. When I was with her, she opened… — Jonathan Tropper
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action — John Irving
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself.… — Anne Sexton
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive,… — Pico Iyer
To successfully open the door to heightened awareness, we must open it inward. — Wayne Dyer
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation,… — John Shelby Spong
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has… — Aberjhani
You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition… — Caleb Deschanel
Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of… — Unknown Author
The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession. — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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