How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.
Figure out what you are meant to contribute to the world and make sure you contribute it. If this requires public speaking or networking or other activities that make you uncomfortable, do them anyway...
(v. t.) To turn or bend inward.
(v. t.) To look within; to introspect.
If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.
I don't need to be vocal about my intentions, I am just intentional about my actions.
She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.
Extroverts communicate well with others, Introverts communicate well with themselves
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 makin...
I recognize the power of silence in an extroverted world but there is a time for silence and a time to speak up about things that matter that continue to be left unsaid.
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that...
I need a break after school, she told me later. School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't wa...
I must always seem so reserved and remote to them. Once in a while they ask questions that seem to call for a statement of what the hell I'm always thinking about, but if I were to babble what's reall...
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…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.
Sometimesi don't haveenough soulin my cheeksto show myface to theworld.
Fur trade's damn near gone; pilgrims pourin' in over the trails me and all the others opened up. Hate to see it. Why, I seen five white people just last month. Five! Gettin' so's a body can't even be...
There's nothing more exciting than ideas.
Poor Zora – she lived through footnotes.
My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.
Consider that the simplest social interactions between two people requires performing an astonishing array of tasks: interpreting what the other person is saying; reading body language and facial expr...
Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435
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