Quotes About Sensitivity

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Hear with your ears, listen with your heart.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

Quando ficar ofendido dá poder às pessoas, elas ficam ofendidas facilmente.

They could smell changes in each other's mood.

save that her eyes spoke too much mind for any one to think she could belong to those who had no souls.

When he held it in his hands his fingers seemed to come alive; they trembled so that he could scarcely open it. He turned the first few pages and saw the dedication: "To W.S.

Kids are just a needle in your heart.

A certain indefinable humanness softens his eyes and tones, and seems to be creeping into everything that he says.

To avoid hurting people needs constant vigilance. As one grows older one is less and less equal to the task. There are so many cruelties of omission.

if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all.

For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.

Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.

I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.

It's not your fault, you've always had sensitive skin and there's nothing wrong with being sensitive.

If your husband is overweight, don't ask him how much he weighs or sneak up behind him when he stands on the bathroom scale.

Put a frog into a pot of water and gradually turn up the heat. The frog will keep adjusting to the increasing temperature until, finally, it dies. Put a frog into a pot of boiling water, though, and the frog will immediately try to jump out of the pot. We too notice the difference when things change drastically.

You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

I could say it was the nights when I was lonely and you were the only one who'd talk. I could tell you that I like your sensitivity, when you know it's the way that you walk.