- Part 3. Or you’re told that you’re “in your head too much”, a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral.
- The greatest art is to sit, wait and let it come. Yogi Bhajan
- “It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- 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
- Part 4. Or maybe there’s another word for such people: thinkers. Susan Cain
- I do not mean I have nothing planned. I mean that I plan to do nothing. Unknown
- Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured… Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to. Susan Cain
- When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release. Lana Del Rey
- Silence is not empty. It’s full of answers. Unknown
- He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know. Lao Tzu
- The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most. Shannon L. Alder
- I am not boring or shy. I am an introvert, an artist, a lover, a dreamer, a fighter, a seeker. Unknown
- Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. Napoleon Hill
- Sometimes those who don’t socialize much aren’t actually antisocial, they just have no tolerance for drama and fake people. Unknown
- “Most people are just filler- like extras in the background of movies exist to make the scene appear fuller- they exist only to make earth appear fuller. But, really they are vapid, substanceless, in fact I avoid most people like the plague” ― Mohadesa Najumi
- “Being Introvert,is Not A PersonLacking Skills.Its Just By Choice.” ― Ravevx
- Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe. Neil Gaiman
- We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally. Susan Cain
- Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches (YouTube video). To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn’t choose to go to Wonderland – but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own. Susan Cain
- When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say “nothing”, it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing. Unknown
- The mind of an introvert is truly complex. We want solitude yet the feeling of loneliness cripples. Unknown
- When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing. Mary Oliver
- The limited circle is pure. Franz Kafka
- A wise man once said nothing. Proverb
- I came, I saw, I left early. Unknown
- Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future. Laurie Helgoe (Website, Twitter)
- Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking you are boring somebody. Helen Gurley Brown
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Take time to be quiet. Zig Ziglar
- You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand. Stephen Chbosky