Quotes About Sensitivity

A dog likes people who pat him on the head. That's because his thinking isn't complicated by knowledge and education

As long as you could feel your heart--wherever it seemed to be--that was the important thing. Libby had an instinct for essentials; at times he had the impression that her little hands reached up and gathered stars of truth.

all paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity

The growing sensitivity of people to any sort of open and frank discussion of important issues is no service to civilisation, let alone law and order. I wrote a play about a man who happened to be a salesman, and several organisations of sales people flew to arms. Now it is the lawyers. If I am to back away from these objections you must surely see that I shall be forced to write about people with no occupation whatever.

By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I mean, it's all a matter of your heart . . . NÂZIM HIKMET

And if blushing serves to heighten such sensitivity, this may be to one's ultimate advantage.

she began to lose her appetite, and strong odors became intolerable.

Here? I asked with my eyes, not wanting to undermine my patient's confidence any further.

Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply.

I feel dirty when I visit my mother. I feel that her intimacy is exposed. Her nightgowns are so thin that her flesh shows through them. Her need is like a vagina. And I do not like to see it.

Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old

La mitezza è un privilegio grande, ma il dolore la avvelena in un attimo.

La morale è: non dobbiamo ridere quando siamo contenti noi, ma quando sono contenti loro.

I rub my tender chest. Mandy did my back hair, too, and I don't know which side of me hurts worse. There is man-pain like a hammer striking your finger and then there is Epilady pain.

To meditate is not to empty the mind and gape at things in a trancelike stupor. Nothing significant will ever be revealed by just staring blankly at an object long and hard enough. To meditate is to probe with intense sensitivity each glimmer of color, each cadence of sound, each touch of another's hand, each fumbling word that tries to utter what cannnot be said. The

He's a wallflower. And Bob nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And i started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

She said I was the most sensitive boy she'd ever met, which I didn't understand because really all I did was not interrupt her.

My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is too dry even if it's soup. And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom.

For Virginians, taught rank-consciousness from birth, sensitive to the slightest slight, concern about rank, status, and position was as much a part of life as breathing.

I have Van Gogh's ear for music

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave