The Top 10 Inspirational Quotes from Famous People with Introverted Perspective #2

Originally Submitted on 8/2/2003.

You enjoyed my first list so much, here's another! Please enjoy and always remember ... introverts value and teach the virtues of solitude, the power of self knowledge, the communicative aspect of silence, the joy of reading and the ecstasy of communion with nature.

1. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. - Martin Buber

Introverts love "the journey". They understand the unfolding process from within and are comfortable with this mystery of life.

2. When we dare to be really quiet we can come very close to our selves and the worlds innermost being. - James Carroll

Oh, the joys of solitude.

3. A book is like a garden you carry in your pocket.
- Arabic proverb

Who loves to read more than the introvert?

4. You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever a mystery to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all your experience to the highest advantage of others. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Introspection leads to expression, not the other way around.

5. Without going outside, you may know the whole world. - Lao Tzu

6. There is a hell - to be alone. And a heaven - to be able to be it.
- Paul Bjerre

This is our greatest teaching as introverts. Extroverts make up 70% of the population and they can't see the heaven in their hell of loneliness. Just think, if they learned there would be no more cell phones!

7. The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method? - Confucius (Kung Fu Tzu)

Introverts are masters of seeing the obvious. We are not distracted.

8. What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery. - Moshe Feldenkrais

Introverts learn differently. We don't learn by talking in class. We learn by connecting the dots, by taking something inside and making it our own. Please don't make us "contribute in class".

9. The moons reflection in the water of the river doesn't move, it doesn't float away. It is just the water passing. - Taisen Deshimaru

Introspection, yes!

10. Man is not shaped by circumstances. It is the circumstances that are shaped by man. - Benjamin Disraeli

Everything starts within.

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