He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure and vague . . . He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightening on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. He seemed to see that a man need not leave his life to chance, but that his will was powerful; he seemed to see that self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion; he seemed to see that the inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands.
W. Somerset MaughamTags: life truth experience introverts
Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.
Tim LaHayeTags: introverts
Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.
Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.
Tags: power reader quiet personality writer persona temperment introverts thinker extroverts cerebral
There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.
Lauren MorrillTags: humor reading introverts
There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.
Tove JanssonTags: winter outsiders introverts
Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe
Susan CainTags: introverts
He (Nixon) needed someone with him so he could be alone.
Rick PerlsteinTags: companionship introverts
We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.
JewelTags: silence loneliness creativity introverts
Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
Susan CainTags: inspirational introverts susan-cain
The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.
Ariel GoreTags: silence talking introverts socialization
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