Luisa Vangrouw

“Passion-means to live for life's sake but I am well aware you Germans live for the sake of experience. Passion means to forget ones self. But you do things in order to enrich yourselves.”
― Thomas Mann

“his throat, but his voice remained”
― Victoria Dougherty, The Bone Church

“The evangelical culture ties together faithfulness with extroversion,” McHugh explained. “The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women