Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
Susan CainStichwörter: love introverts
Angry people scared me. Angry people who thought I was in charge scared me even more.
Amanda HammStichwörter: introverts christian-romance fictional-character
An introverted woman spends hours contemplating a thought or observing a pattern in her life. She turns it over in her mind until it becomes a companion to her and then decides to share it in the context of a small group. When she musters up the courage to voice it, trembling as she puts words to this precious inner stirring, someone in the group cuts her off when she pauses in the middle, her thought still building steam. This person quickly tells her she shouldn't feel the way she does or else counters with a story of her own, which only tangentially relates to what the introvert was saying. Nouwen's words perfectly capture the sense of personal violation and emptiness: "Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon.
Adam McHughStichwörter: introverts
Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones
Susan CainStichwörter: public-speaking introversion introverts lions
Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.
Sophia DemblingStichwörter: introverts
And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information a kind of calm. They no longer tried, with a bright and desperate effort, to sustain a conversation with somebody's brother, somebody's usher, somebody's roommate, somebody's roommate's usher's brother... The category of wallflower who had given up on all this was very quiet, not indifferent, only quiet. And she always brought a book.
Renata AdlerStichwörter: introverts
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