#intro

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional. ↗

— Susan Cain

#love #love

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#introversion #neuroticism #art

I'm sorry," Leo murmured and then seemed to look through Martin for a few seconds before he returned his gaze to him. "Although if it's any comfort - and please don't take this the wrong way, because I speak from my own perspective, which I understand often places me far outside of the norm - I sometimes like to think that death, at least in the case of those we truly love, allows us to appreciate what they have done for us in ways that are not possible when we're all here, constantly changing and fixated on how to get from one day to the next. Death offers us the chance to reflect on who they were, which of course is a way to understand ourselves. As painful as it can be to see them go - and I don't mean to diminish the sense of loss or grief we all feel - there is also no greater gift. ↗

— Matthew Gallaway

#introspection #change

One of the teens I worked with told me about how she loves to take tests, because it is quiet and everyone is occupying their own space. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#change

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#change

The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you. ↗

— Brent Runyon

#introvert #introverts #journalism

The limited circle is pure. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#introverts #society #introvert

It seemed that for every evil they defeated, worse took its place, but Vaughn banished the thought that this all might be a cruel game, a hoax played on the… ''No! I know what true Goodness, true Life, true Love is. Besides, this is too miserable to be a game…unless demons…NO! Besides, even if I was some kind of pawn, well, then this game piece would rebel! ↗

— Darryl Steven Markowitz

#intrigue #introspection #inspirational

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 Cain

#introverts #susan-cain #inspirational