{"quotes":[{"text":"When you fail to tap into your wellsprings of inner strength due totoxic habits, environments or people, you wind up feeling trapped, stranded and unhappy. You end up in soulless jobs, destructive relationships and empty friendships. Most of all, youfind yourself unsatisfied with who you are, and you often become your own worst enemy,perpetuating the cycles of pain, anger and fear within you – like I did.","author":"Aletheia Luna","tags":["anger","fear","introversion","introvertedness","introverts","quiet-strength","unhappiness"],"id":578,"author_id":"Aletheia+Luna"},{"text":"During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.","author":"Edward Carey","tags":["conversation","introversion","openness","relaxation","reveal","secret","self","social"],"id":6659,"author_id":"Edward+Carey"},{"text":"People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.","author":"Alice Hoffman","tags":["depression","introversion","secrets","trauma"],"id":8088,"author_id":"Alice+Hoffman"},{"text":"The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.","author":"Ross Macdonald","tags":["books","introversion","literature","reading","words"],"id":13714,"author_id":"Ross+Macdonald"},{"text":"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absorbent","ambivert","assumption","awareness","bias","cool","crazy","culture","discernment","down-to-earth","extrovert","friendly","intelligent","introversion","introvert","judgment","knowledge","learned","loner","misunderstood","mysterious","normal","observation","odd","prejudgment","prudence","psychology","quiet-people","reality","reflection","shy","silence","social","social-awareness","strange","thinking","underestimated","understanding","weird","wisdom"],"id":17374,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...The hope that they will leave soon.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["alone","alone-time","company","funny","funny-but-true","home","hope","humor","introversion","introvert","loner","privacy","shy"],"id":17643,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The idea of being invisibly alone in a crowd of strangers is so tempting for a number of introverts...Or maybe for loneliness?","author":"Jennifer William","tags":["introversion","loneliness"],"id":26089,"author_id":"Jennifer+William"},{"text":"I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["imagination","introversion","pretty-prose","quiet","quietness","romanticism","solitude"],"id":29026,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can 'see' you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog, the more they will feel like they know you, even though you don't have one-on-one interaction with them.","author":"Thom S. Rainer","tags":["extrovesion","introversion","social-media"],"id":37587,"author_id":"Thom+S.+Rainer"},{"text":"In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accusation","assumption","bias","blame","extroversion","extroverts","fear","guilt","innocence","introversion","introverts","judgment","judgmental","judgmentality","people","skepticism","social-norms","society","unconscious-mind"],"id":41409,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}