Intensity is not always easy to live with or comfortable to watch, but it is also never boring. In the words of developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky, “People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” ~ Thomas Merton “If you want to be happy, be.” ~ Tolstoy Happiness and intensity are not the same thing. I enjoy browsing Gretchen Rubin’s blog The Happiness Project, especially if I’m feeling emotionally stuck or apathetic. Her lively …
If we can distance ourselves from our regret a bit and look at it squarely, questioning it for what it can teach us, regret can help us to live in such a way today so as to minimize feelings of regret tomorrow.
From John Holt, author, editor, and education reformer: [F]rom the age of 11 I felt left out, and never more so than when I was in school. I think that for most children in our society the experience of growing up is an experience of being left out, partly because of our worship of beauty, …
I’m happy to be in Hurst, Texas, for the 2011 Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented Parent Conference, where this morning I’ll be speaking about how gifted children, young and old, “grow with intensity,” so it seems fitting to share the following thoughts here on being sensually intense (or overexcitable). One of the most …