“We don’t know where this will lead. The world is not happy with this arrangement. But no great love story was ever written without a villain.”— Susan Verghese, psiloveyou.xyz
“Empathy reflects a person’s ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.”— Karen Lander, qz.com
“So if you encounter someone with Avoidant Personality Disorder, you’re likely to see how much more massive their anxiety and social inhibition is, than say, a person who is “just” anxious. This isn’t just someone who gets easily drained by other people (as many introverts do) or avoids interactions…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Thinking introversion is a newer concept. People with high levels of thinking introversion don't share the aversion to social events people usually associate with introversion. Instead, they're introspective, thoughtful, and self-reflective.”— Melissa Dahl, nymag.com
“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”— Susan Cain, ted.com
“It’s become as natural and right to be alone and silent that I don’t know how I can shift over to company.”— Martha Gellhorn, amazon.com
“The power to bring me out of solitude – or to push me back into it – had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.”— Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com
“You’re told that you’re in your head too much, a phrase that’s often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there’s another word for such people: thinkers.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to ent…”— Karen Armstrong, amazon.com
“It’s tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”— William S. Burroughs, amazon.com
“I am not cold. I wasn't ever cold. My warmth was hidden far away from anything that could bring hurt because I knew I didn't have the inner scaffolding to endure any more hurt in those protected places.”— Roxane Gay, amazon.com
“Even a moderate and familiar stimulation, like a day at work, can cause a highly sensitive person to need quiet by evening.”— Elaine N. Aron, amazon.com
“We are a package deal, however. Our trait of sensitivity means we will also be cautious, inward, needing extra time alone. Because people without the trait (the majority) do not understand that, they see us as timid, shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to…”— Elaine N. Aron, amazon.com
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“To make the right choices in life you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude - which most people are afraid of because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”— Deepak Chopra, books.google.ca