INFP Introverts: The 64-Color Box

"Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what I'm really looking for is the 64-color box with the sharpener on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay, though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem, though, in that I only seem to meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So, when I meet someone who's an 8-color type I'm like, 'Hey girl, magenta!' and she's like, 'Oh, you mean purple!' and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, 'No...I want magenta!'" —John Mayer

"…his siblings and others of his community fly at him, peck at him, torment him. They mean to chase him away. And the ugly duckling is heartbroken to be rejected by his own. It is a terrible thing, especially since he did nothing to warrant it other than look different and act different. While exile is not a thing to desire for the fun of it, there is an unexpected gain from it; the gifts of exile are many. It takes out weakness by the pounding. It removes whininess, enables acute insight, heightens intuition, and grants the power of keen observation and perspective that the 'insider' can never achieve." —Clarissa Pinkola-Estes

"An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is one who sees the light and the shadows but, in addition, sees something else; the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights prevail over the shadows." —Felix Adler

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And, while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." —Jack Kerouac

"What painters and sculptors and writers do, incidentally, is put very small properties indeed into good order, as best they can. A painter thinks, 'I can't fix the whole planet, but I can at least make this square of canvas what it ought to be.' And a sculptor thinks the same about a lump of clay or marble. A writer thinks the same about a piece of paper, conventionally eleven inches long and eight and a half inches wide. I suggest to you that you set as your goal the putting of some small part of the planet into something like safe and sane and decent order. There's a lot of cleaning up to do." —Kurt Vonnegut

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