Infj Quotes

Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.

[INTJs and INFJs] Are willing to concede that the impossible takes a little longer—but not much

INFJs reveal their warm inner selves in layers. Any sign of judgment or harshness from another causes them to shut down their remaining layers deep within themselves, never to be opened to that individual again.

Because being understood matters a great deal to the INFJ, they have a tendency to be overly precise with their words. They never wish to give half-truths or omissions that may leave room for misunderstandings or wrong ideas.

Because empaths are, on the whole, highly sensitive people, the energies in which we are all submerged affect their bodies and emotions much more powerfully than the average person.

The INFJ is able to tune into underlying meanings and gain deeper awareness of your situation. They can feel unexpressed emotions and pick up on small inflections which others may require you to spell out. INFJs do not only listen, they hear, comprehend and engage in your words.

As a person who feels at their best when they are helping others, the INFJ wants nothing less than to ensure that those around them feel good about themselves, content in their space and comfortable with life.

If you are a Sensitive Intuitive, then you are also a born healer. Writing is one of your heart's passions, but only one. You also have a life purpose to use your healer abilities to be of service to the world.

My words are my soul. Whether I am writing or speaking, my words are always the most accurate window into what I really think, feel and believe.  I have never understood lies, games, rumors or gossip.  Words, in my world, are always pure.

Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person.

I found myself thinking that perhaps there was something inexorable about the way events unfolded, as if my life--which had begun to seem something not my own but rather something into which I found myself blindly toppling--was indeed something living, that existed without my knowledge but that pulled me along in its strong, insistent undertow.

Don't be fooled by my quiet exterior. It hides a wild mind and passionate heart.

My companions could make observations. Sloane could generate relevant statistics. If there'd been witness testimony, Michael could have told us who was exhibiting signs of guilt. But here, now, looking at the pictures, this was my domain. I would have to backtrack to explain how I knew, to figure out how I knew -- but I was certain.

I'm louder than you think.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.” -Tyler Knott Gregson

Whatever emotional experience has made you who you are today is where you will find the seeds of your life purpose.

Empathy is my good friend, but she doesn’t allow me to be angry.

Gain but first make room by giving" (It's the infj way)

Every INFJ knows the feeling of approaching someone who seems slightly cold, maybe even dismissive, and being slowly let in when they see how earnest we are about appreciating them.

So many great artists, writers, and other creative visionaries end up depressed and suicidal. When you feel like no one understands you, but at the same time you understand so many people to the core of their soul...the outlook can appear pretty grim.

Blocking our feelings and pretending they aren’t there doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Anger tried to help me feel better about myself by pushing the blame onto someone else.

As you work more and put more energy into spreading your light and helping others, your life will begin to change and you will become more comfortable with your Sensitive Intuitive self. Ultimately, you will understand your gifts and how you were meant to use them here.

You are not a victim. You are a willing participant that has created your own anxiety through your negative mind, insecurities and actions. If you want to secure your future then the only way is through love, forgiveness and the willingness to admit you have participated in the uncomfortableness you are experiencing now. Stop telling yourself you are justified in hate, indifference, silence or bias. You are not. You can't build a positive life through battling others. The world is full of victims. No one wants to hear that story. People want to know how you did what the majority wouldn't do-you forgave and built up your enemies. It is seems totally rare and unheard of these days to swallow your pain and take the high road, but guess what? Those are the leaders that people admire and want to know. Those are the 1% who change the world and people's lives. So why do you want to be like the world when you can be beyond it?

Intuition has always been my greatest gift. It has provided me with many ideas for my creative work and saved me from a lot of trouble. It’s just that when I feel stressed and desperate, I forget this gift.

We work better with authoritative, empathic leaders, and empathic teachers like ourselves, that fit our morals, values, ethics, and principles.

In the end all we truly have are a series of new beginnings

I mistakenly believed that I was my emotions.

INFJs are often accused of pushing people away, even though we long for deep relationships with others.

The life of the party is actually an introverted recluse. She knows the difference between being alone and being lonely. The latter is a feeling she has yet to experience. If she invites you into her world, she plans on keeping you.

As perfectionists and idealists, INFJs are constantly striving to make things better. Whether it's a relationship we're invested in, a person we care about, a project we're working on, or even a houseplant, INFJs won't give up until they've exhausted every possibility for improvement.

Save the world all you want, it'll just unsave itself again.

Even with our closest friends, we hold back. We always hold back.

It's not easy to be friends with me, actually. Besides a chooser I am also a loner. Everytime I pushed them away they just gave me space and time and after all those breaks they keep coming back. They are ready for my "3 AM text" , they are ready for my "disregard", they are ready for my ups and downs, they are ready for my weirdness, for my moods, ready for my solitude....for years. They touched me in the way no other people did. They touched me in silence. Maybe I can live without them. But God has given them as a gift for my hapiness.

INFJs tend to be avid fiction readers, as this pursuit provides INFJs with much needed recharge time. They likely see themselves in many of the main characters, who are often INFJs, as fiction novel authors are commonly INFJs. To the rarest type (approximately 2% of the population), always on a quest to better understand themselves,  this is both appealing and validating.

I would learn later that Akin could keep himself neatly folded in while he drew out other people. He was the kind of person that many claimed as a dear friend. Many of those people did not even know him, but they never knew they did not know him.

We love talking with someone who is interested in pealing back psychological and emotional layers, both ours and theirs if we trust them enough. Even issues that tend to deeply polarize people are open for discussion with an INFJ. While we will have strong opinions on somethings, most of the time we just want to talk about different ideas.

Turn off your phone, shut down the internet, and lock yourself into that silent-hour. If you're not writing, then you're staring at the table. Those are your two options. You'd be surprised how easy it is to pick writing when there is literally nothing else to do.

Evil is the son of ungratefulness

Seeing is believing, but if you believe everything you see you're blind

In the end all we truly have are, a series of new beginnings.

The world sees beauty and gets excited and anxious to exploit it

We all have a common enemy no matter what you've been promised

Kazimierz Dabrowski and his Theory of Positive Disintegration.

AS AN INFJ I RESPECT PURE INTENTIONS OVER RIGHT AND WRONG. I RESPECT THE AUTHENTIC OVER THE ACCOMPLISHED.

We (INFJs) form intimate connections with people just by breathing.

You can be authentic with people and still maintain the strict levels of privacy the INFJ needs to feel healthy and safe.

the more I learned about what it meant to be an INFJ, the more I saw how my INFJ-ness infused my challenges, talents, and creative growth in the realm of writing.

It can be very jarring for others to see this introverted individual withdraw so completely when the going gets tough, and they may view them, incorrectly, as weak. They aren’t, but they have to do what needs to be done in order to bounce back and get back in the saddle.

Egalitarianism and karma are very attractive ideas to INFJs, and they tend to believe that nothing would help the world so much as using love and compassion to soften the hearts of tyrants.

Limitless compassion. Finding beauty in the underappreciated. Patience devoted to a job well loved. These are the values that set Sensitive Intuitives on fire. Not competition and not reward-based approval systems.

I find myself taking responsibility for everyone's emotions, even though they are not my burden to carry. I somehow feel that it is up to me to make them happy, because no one else will. If my loved ones are not happy, neither am I.

People want to tell us about their stuff. They trust us, usually immediately and 100%. Probably because they know we're not going to tell anyone else. INFJs are like vaults with secrets. It's rare for us to dishonor someone else's private information even if it's someone we truly dislike.

because of how much external emotions affect us. We place a very high value on peace, and will do almost anything to avoid conflict. At heart, INFJs are peacemakers who want to understand opposing viewpoints so that we can create harmony. We're good at putting ourselves in other people's shoes,

Some gifted people have all five and some less. Every gifted person tends to lead with one. As I read this list for the first time I was struck by the similarities between Dabrowski’s overexcitabilities and the traits of Sensitive Intuitives. Read the list for yourself and see what you identify with: Psychomotor This manifests as a strong pull toward movement. People with this overexcitability tend to talk rapidly and/or move nervously when they become interested or passionate about something. They have a lot of physical energy and may run their hands through their hair, snap their fingers, pace back and forth, or display other signs of physical agitation when concentrating or thinking something out. They come across as physically intense and can move in an impatient, jerky manner when excited. Other people might find them overwhelming and they’re routinely diagnosed as ADHD. Sensual This overexcitability comes in the form of an extreme sensitivity to sounds, smells, bright lights, textures and temperature. Perfume and scented soaps and lotions are bothersome to people with this overexcitability, and they might also have aversive reactions to strong food smells and cleaning products. For me personally, if I’m watching a movie in which a strobe light effect is used, I’m done. I have to shut my eyes or I’ll come down with a headache after only a few seconds. Loud, jarring or intrusive sounds also short circuit my wiring. Intellectual This is an incessant thirst for knowledge. People with this overexcitability can’t ever learn enough. They zoom in on a few topics of interest and drink up every bit of information on those topics they can find. Their only real goal is learning for learning’s sake. They’re not trying to learn something to make money or get any other external reward. They just happened to have discovered the history of the Ming Dynasty or Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and now it’s all they can think about. People with this overexcitability have intellectual interests that are passionate and wide-ranging and they study many areas simultaneously. Imaginative INFJ and INFP writers, this is you. This is ALL you. Making up stories, creating imaginary friends, believing in Santa Claus way past the ordinary age, becoming attached to fairies, elves, monsters and unicorns, these are the trademarks of the gifted child with imaginative overexcitability. These individuals appear dreamy, scattered, lost in their own worlds, and constantly have their heads in the clouds. They also routinely blend fiction with reality. They are practically the definition of the Sensitive Intuitive writer at work. Emotional Gifted individuals with emotional overexcitability are highly empathetic (and empathic, I might add), compassionate, and can become deeply attached to people, animals, and even inanimate objects, in a short period of time. They also have intense emotional reactions to things and might not be able to stomach horror movies or violence on the evening news. They have most likely been told throughout their life that they’re “too sensitive” or that they’re “overreacting” when in truth, they are expressing exactly how they feel to the most accurate degree.

She has seen failed relationships. She has had her trust broken by people close to her. She has endured insurmountable pain and sadness. She has myriad questions in her mind, and one question is about the meaning of this life. She needs time to heal. She needs time for a transformation in her mind, body, and soul. Give her some time. And be there for her.

Ideology is summary...in the world of collective nuance we are all easily overwhelmed by information

Rather, we don't really see the value of money unless we're starkly reminded that we need it when there isn't any to be had.

We prefer possibility to actuality, future to the present, intuition to fact, improvement over the status quo.

You usually learn more from the unseen than you do the sought after

Build all the roads and bridges you want. REbuilding yourself will always take you further.

IN THE PURSUIT OF IT ALL YOU OFTEN LOSE EVERYTHING YOU RECOGNIZED AS ANYTHING.

When someone breaks your trust. They may randomly behave like they stopped trusting you, as a defense mechanism

Total surrender is an inescapable prison you will never reach, but reach for it anyway

WHEN IT COMES TO MANIFESTING YOUR DESTINY YOU HAVE TO SEE IT BEFORE YOU SEE IT OR YOU'LL NEVER SEE IT.

The food you ate is connected to fate

Children now will go there entire lives without a single grass stain on their jeans

Principled people prevail

Focus until you crash and then refocus

It's entirely possible to sneak into a conference and sneak out again, armed with a ton of new knowledge, and without directly talking to anyone.

Así que me fui y lo dejé allí, a la luz de la luna, vigilando la nada.

Everything in the universe is kept stable by balance, lack of which is the indirect cause of all chaos.

You have to actually do the exercises.

The placement of words and signs are what dictate the placement of people..most people

God only uses broken vases, otherwise man will claim credit

Keep your thoughts simple and lead from the heart. Or you may think yourself out of a blessing.

No one is blessed to see the actual future only a possible one..and yeah I see it!

Before the term "Alpha male" became popular they just called us Men, it meant more before!

Eyes like these were made to look after things like you

I'm a bear you're a bubble bee, I'm immune to your sting but I depend on you to make life sweet

PEOPLE SEARCHING FOR THEIR PURPOSE HAVE OVERLOOKED THEIR POTENTIAL..

I get it you want it all But at what cost..

You're his friend, Jack. Why can't you leave him alone? 'Because it's his bad luck to be the best. Because he doesn't think like other people. Somehow he never got in a rut.

This deep appreciation for what other people feel leads to INFJs being very conscious of what is or is not acceptable socially. INFJs are always trying to please others and act in a way that is acceptable in others' eyes. This is in conflict with our very distinctive expression of Ni and we often end up in a struggle to be individualistic and fit in at the same time.

INFJs believe overly competitive environments are harmful to the creative process. They have a visceral, instinctual aversion to workplace dynamics that set one employee against the other, and they abhor backstabbing and office politics almost as much as they despise social injustice and wasted human potential—probably because they see such behavior as a contributing factor to our society’s dysfunction.

We just have to find a balance between always being unsatisfied with relationships because they are not perfect, and settling for a relationship that isn't healthy for us because we think we'll never find someone who really “gets” us.

If we hesitate to answer when you ask us a question, we are NOT thinking of an excuse or making up lies; we are simply trying to find the words to describe what we are feeling. We don't think in logic, we think in feelings and symbols – those are sometimes difficult to find words for.

I CAN SEE THE FUTURE ACTUALLY IT'S NOT THE FUTURE IT'S A POSSIBLE FUTURE ALL VISIONARIES CAN AND DO THIS MOST ARTIST SEE THE PAINTING BEFORE IT'S CREATED THE HELPFUL ADVICE, I GIVE COMES FROM A SIMILAR PROCESS MAYBE THIS IS JUST COMMON SENSE BUT I HAVE A SUSPICION THAT IT'S MORE

Often we'll stop paying attention to the world outside our minds and walk around in a Walter Mitty-like state that causes people who have no idea what's going on to label us as “crazy.” It often takes a conscious effort to pull ourselves out of our own heads enough to interact with people in a normal fashion, especially if we're dealing with small-talk rather than a conversation with depth. So

You have a well developed “rich inner world” and/or the feeling that you belong in a fantasy world rather than the real one. Conflict is tremendously uncomfortable, and you'll do almost anything to avoid tense moments. You can't act on something until it makes sense emotionally and morally, even if it already makes sense logically. It seems easy to pick up on other people’s emotions and mirror them while you are talking. Other people want to confide in you, even random strangers. You’re a spiritual/religious person who frequently ponders deep and/or abstract ideas. You are fascinated by personality types and enjoy figuring out what other people's types are. There is a struggle between needing to be around people so you can connect with them and share your thoughts, and an introvert’s desire for alone time. You have a vision for and desire to make the world a better place. Phrases that other people use to describe you include “old soul,” “impractical,” “daydreamer,” “too sensitive,” “good listener,” “weird,” and “deep.

When I was drinking I was doing it to suppress emotion, yes, but I was also doing it because it made me, for the first time in my life, able to be King Extrovert. And I loved that feeling. Under the influence of alcohol I could socialize with friends for hours, and not get drained. I could go to packed stadiums to watch games or concerts, and not get drained. I could flirt and mingle and chat with dozens of people over the course of a night and not…get…drained. It was like a miracle pill that erased all the parts of myself I had struggled with for years. The shyness, the awkward way I made small talk, the pounding headaches I got after too much noise and too many bright lights.

The INFJ is not interested in the subtle niceties and societal game playing.  They want to see who you are, no matter how good or bad.  They would rather see your worst parts exposed than wonder why you are trying to hide them.                Trust is everything to an INFJ.

INFJs weakness: have no sense of direction, often so clumsy, worst at expressing their emotions, too afraid to hurt someone, stubborn, have too high / low goal.

alcohol somehow helps me verbalize my emotions. It takes away that wall that I put up, so I am very honest, and it gets my talkative juices flowing so I can speak freer and easier. It calms the storm in my head.

our personality type is the “canvas” and our individual choices and experiences are the “paint” we each use in creating our unique lives.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them … I destroy them.” – Ender in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game Most

Think of this person as the Obi-Wan Kenobi who always seems to produce the right answer when the occasion calls for it, but otherwise remains quite reserved. On the flip side, INFJ could be the one leading new projects in Research and Development, imagining fantastic new products and services but sometimes failing to see real world obstacles which prevent the idea from becoming viable. Office INFJ aims to make the world a better place in all cases

TRUE FEMININITY LIKE TRUE MASCULINITY IS UNDENIABLE. THE SOCIETAL TROPE THAT WATERED DOWN VERSIONS OF THE ORIGINAL ARE JUST AS GOOD. ADD TO THE COLLECTIVE PSYCHOSIS THAT THE POPULATION SEEMS TO BE UNDER

Quenk is a licensed psychologist and Ph.D who wrote Was That Really Me? How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personalities.