Showing posts with label Anaïs Nin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anaïs Nin. Show all posts

Sunday, December 15, 2024

Introvert insight:


The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting.
For some, it’s a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk.
Use your natural powers – of persistence, concentration, and insight – to do work you love and work that matters.
Solve problems.
Make art.
Think deeply.

– Susan Cain.
 
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

– Marcus Tullius Cicero.
 
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts.
We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center.
So we lost our center and have to find it again.

– Anaïs Nin.
 
He’s a wallflower.
You see things.
You keep quiet about them.
And you understand.

– Stephen Chbosky.