Tocqueville saw that the life of constant action and decision which was entailed by the democratic and businesslike character of American life put a premium upon rough and ready habits of mind, quick...
The comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation
(n.) The act of introverting, or the state of being introverted; the act of turning the mind inward.
Chaplin left the Keystone studios on a Saturday night in December after cutting his last film, without bidding farewell to any of his erstwhile colleagues; he spent Sunday in his room at the Los Angel...
Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love nor comradeship nor any human emotion to round out her...
A Manifesto for Introverts1. There's a word for 'people who are in their heads too much': thinkers.2. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.3. The next generation of quiet kids can and must be raised...
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out.
For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.
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...
Only a few have learned to savor the significance of solitude. Those who can glory in being alone on occasion are the saint or poet or explorer.
the idea of being invisibly alone in a crowd of strangers is so tempting for a number of introverts...or maybe for loneliness?
One of the ways I know I shouldn't be online is when I'm looking to get something that I already have in abundance as a child of God.
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.
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