If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.
Solve problems, make art, think deeply.
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.
Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.
Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.
The deliverance of the saints must take place some time before 1914.
A broken heart is a reminder of our only source of power.
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.