#introvert

The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#extrovert #god #introvert #life

I'm self-loathing, introverted, and neurotic. ↗

— Megan Fox

#introverted #neurotic #self-loathing

I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional. ↗

— Tom Ford

#emotional #i #introverted #shy #very

I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very different I don't see it as any kind of typecasting. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

#any #cast #certain #characters #different

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#had #i #introverted #kind #lot

Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#shy #love

Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform ↗

— Susan Cain

#psychology #oppression

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 making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off. ↗

— Susan Cain

#extrovert #introversion #introvert #home

When I’m introduced to a woman for the first time, I always say the same thing. I say, “Hi, I’m Jarod, and I think you’ll love my kids. You’d better, because you’re going to give birth to them.” This usually works, because after I say this I can immediately go back to being an introvert, as I’m left standing there all alone. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#love

The limited circle is pure. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#introverts #society #introvert