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#1

“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
― Coco Chanel

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#2

“Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: sin, stupidity, wisdom

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#5

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

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#6

“Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.”
― Amy Efaw, After

tags: quiet, shy

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#7

“Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.”
― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

tags: conversation, shy, speaking

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#8

“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: dejan-stojanovic, feelings, literature, literature-quotes, loud, poetry-quotes, quotes, shy, shyness, thoughts, wisdom, words, world

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#9

“She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls she's chosen to eat with. Why?
I have no clue, and I really don't want to spend my time worrying about it. But my brain pushes at the question anyway.
Why are people aloof?
Because they don't want to let others in.
Why don't they want to let others in?
Well, sometimes because they're shy, and sometimes because they're convinced of their own superiority.
But those aren't the only reasons. Sometimes it's because thay have something to hide.”
― Lauren Myracle, Bliss

tags: aloof, hiding, questions, shy

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#10

“One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

tags: shy

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#11

“Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: artist, coherence, conversation, expression, incoherence, introvert, poet, shy, songwriting, speech, words, writer, writing

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#12

“Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?”
― A.A. Bell , Hindsight

tags: animals, bell, bit, comedy, crime, dogs, fantasy, revenge, science-fiction, shy, supernatural

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#13

“The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: development, humble, improvement, introvert, learning, quiet, secret, shy, wisdom

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#14

“You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

tags: drained, funny, funny-but-true, homebody, humor, introvert, loner, personality, recharge, shy

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#15

“Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manner were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

tags: edward-ferrars, sense-and-sensibility, shy

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#16

“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

tags: confidence, loneliness, shyness

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#17

“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: shyness, social-anxiety, truth

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#18

“But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire

tags: anger, courage, shyness

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#19

“A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Winter

tags: coldness, indifference, shyness, vanity

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#20

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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#21

“Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.”
― Fiona Apple

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#22

“Deep rivers run quiet.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

tags: feelings, life, love, shyness

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#23

“You're always saying people don't like you but people can't like something that's not there.”
― Cath Crowley, A Little Wanting Song

tags: isolation, shyness

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#24

“The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

tags: fear, inferiority, shyness, social-anxiety

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#25

“Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.”
― Stevie Smith, Selected Poems of Stevie Smith

tags: friendship, shyness, social-anxiety, society

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#26

“Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.”
― Penelope Keith

tags: depths, ego, egoism, psychology, shyness

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#27

“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be read to fight the enemy you can see.”
― Al-Ghazzali

tags: anger, arrogance, cheating, conceit, egoism, gossiping, greed, intolerance, jihad, lust, lying, selfishness, slandering

731 likes

#28

“Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: burden, detractors, distract, egocentric, egoism, egotism, egotist, fake-friends, fatal, laziness, lazy, michael-bassey-johnson, mission, narcissism, parasites, perch, satisfaction, self-absorbed, self-centred, self-interest, self-obsessed, vain

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#29

“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”
― Hamza Yusuf

tags: ego, egoism, intelligence, weak, wisdom, wise

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#30

“In this story
I am the poet
You're the poetry.”
― Arzum Uzun

tags: arzum-uzun, arzum-uzun-quotes, arzum-uzun-sözleri, breaking-up, broken-heart, broken-hearted, broken-hearts, conflict, ego, egocentrism, egoism, egotistical, end-of-the-summer, heart-break, jokes, laughing, love, love-poems, love-quotes, making-jokes, poet, poetry-love, poetry-quotes, poets, relationship, relationships, smiling, summer

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#31

“Don't feed your ego with my soul.”
― Arzum Uzun

tags: arzum-uzun, arzum-uzun-quotes, arzum-uzun-sözleri, conflict, ego, egocentrism, egoism, egotistical, love, relationship, relationships

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