“Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.” PeopleFeelingsCultureStepsPainfulExpectedIntrovertedPainful Experiences Author:Susan Cain
“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.” TryingLittlesIdeasEnoughFeelingsDreamInspirationMotherNamesWaitingSoundMy OwnRoomsAchievementNobleExpectedArtisticCombinationSatInsecurityPensOur DreamsHelplessnessPseudonyms Book:Promise at Dawn Source: Promise at Dawn
“The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.” MindFeelingsChurchEmotionMembersUnderstoodBlindIntellectExpectedDoctrineTestedInvestigatorsAdherenceChurch Members Author:John Andreas Widtsoe
“Mr. [Aldous] Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch party. Whatever will he say next? How does he think of those things? He has been deplored once or twice, but feeling is in his favor: he is steadily read. He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person's idea of the clever person; he is expected to be relentless, to administer intellectual shocks.” ThinkingMenPersonsLongDoeHas BeensIdeasFeelingsYoungNextPartyStupidLong TimeIntellectualExpectedFavorsCleverYoung ManShockLunchPerpetualRelentlessNephewHuxleyStupid PersonClever Person Author:Elizabeth Bowen