Introvert Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Jewel

  Motivational, Dream, Knowing

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• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Roots, Sorrow

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• My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves

  Socrates

  Care, May, Know Thyself

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• There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Would Be, Lunatic Asylums

  Richard Isadore Evans, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernest Jones (1964). “Conversations with Carl [Gustav] Jung and reactions from Ernest Jones”, Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand

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• I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

  Helen Hunt

  Thinking, Combination, Daring

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• E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

  Tom Hanks

  Phones, Mail, Get Away

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• Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

  Julia Quinn

  Smart, Heart, Personality

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Jun 14, 2013

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• A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Music, Happy Life

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• Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

  Anne Lamott

  Running, Commitment, Acceptance

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.

  Criss Jami

  Party, Saint, Hell

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.119, Criss Jami

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• Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

  Susan Cain

  New Year, Running, Home

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books

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• Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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• Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.

  Laurie Helgoe

  People, Too Much, Way

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• I think a lot, but I don't say much.

  Anne Frank

  Thinking

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.112, GENERAL PRESS

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• Introverts keep their best stuff inside—that is, until it is ready. And this drives extroverts crazy! The explanation for the introvert’s behavior—and there must be an explanation for this behavior, say the extroverts—is that he or she is antisocial, out of touch, or simply a snob.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Crazy, Extroverts, Stuff

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• You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Mind, May

  "Why Yoko Ono Is Her Own Breed Of Celebrity" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2015.

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• The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Creativity

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• Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog, the more they will feel like they know you, even though you don't have one-on-one interaction with them.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Writing, People, Google

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• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Being Alone, Creativity, Quiet Moments

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• What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Practice, Civilization, Solitude

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1967). “SELECTIONS FROM GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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  Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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

  Brent Runyon

  People, Problem, Introversion

  Brent Runyon (2005). “The Burn Journals”, p.265, Vintage

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• Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Being Alone, Ideas

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• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  Quentin Crisp

  Change, Art, Environment

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