“ Steffy risked a glance at her fellow neighbors and townspeople. She often looked for kindred spirits in the crowd. None were ever found. Just once, she wished to see someone trying to hide a smile, a… Jaime Allison Parker
“ Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends,… Susan Cain
“ He felt himself falling into a state, very common when he was younger, of being totally cut off from the society he was in. Iris Murdoch
“ Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do.The sign read:Hold stick near center of its length. Moist… Douglas Adams
“ I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, y… Augusten Burroughs
“ The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail fore… Daphne du Maurier
“ Maybe my time's running out, but at least I'm living. And if that's what it is for you, being here inside where nothing ever happens, where you think you're safe, then stay. Stay right here and you le… John Corey Whaley
“ The constant vigilance and my heightened anxiety that I'd screw it up anyway exhausted me, but I persevered. Tracey Garvis-Graves
“ Does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction Tao Lin
“ You are not weak. People like us, we're brave. We're the ones who get up and face our worst fears every day. We keep fighting. Jen Wilde
“ Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life:… Iris Murdoch
“ I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it. Emily Bronte
“ We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering in… Nilantha Ilangamuwa
“ Patriotism, currently, is nothing but the deadly evolution of narrow minded politics which has distorted language. Nilantha Ilangamuwa
“ I certainly have not the talent which some people possess, said Darcy, of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in thei… Jane Austen
“ Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can import from another country. It is not a creation of the almighty gifted from the heave… Nilantha Ilangamuwa
“ A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push. Ludwig Wittgenstein
“ It was hard for me to come up with something on the fly, which is why I preferred, if at all possible, not to say anything at all for fear it wasn't the right thing. Tracey Garvis-Graves
“ It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.Yet the ultimate hack is is to belong with yourself.Once you belong within,You belong with all. Reshan Pillai
