Quotes About Sensitivity

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

empathy is best understood as a skill because being empathic, or having the capacity to show empathy, is not a quality that is innate or intuitive. We might be naturally sensitive to others, but there is more to empathy than sensitivity.

A great musician once told me that one should never play a single note without hearing it, feeling that it is true, thinking it beautiful.

The body is sensitive. It registers every thought and feeling. Be tender with it.

I've read that madness is present when everything you see and hear takes on an equal significance. A dead bird makes you cry, and so does a doorknob.

Quel suo fantomatico viaggio sulle Alpi aveva svelato una verità nascosta che portava dentro di sé. Sapeva di non essere un uomo che si nasconde dietro alle proprie menzogne. Ma allo stesso tempo aveva iniziato a chiedersi sempre più spesso se la sua visione del mondo non fosse in realtà una specie di menzogna, anche se derivava da una mancanza di sensibilità più che da un consapevole allontanamento dalla verità.

preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community

When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.

A spiritual life without discipline is impossible. Discipline is the other side of discipleship. The practice of a spiritual discipline makes us more sensitive to the small, gentle voice of God.

The eyes of love had seen you as precious, as of infinite beauty, as of eternal value. When love chooses, it chooses with a perfect sensitivity for the unique beauty of the chosen one, and it chooses without making anyone else feel excluded.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

If thou hast seen all these without knowing what beauty is, thou hast no eyes; if without feeling its power, thou hast no heart.

She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.

Try to be one of those people on whom nothing is lost.

We must feel everything, everything we can. We are here for that.

Oh, it was a trap — not designed but deep — to my imagination, to my delicacy, perhaps to my vanity; to whatever in me was most excitable.

she would have been as smooth to his general need of her as handled ivory to the palm.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.

It's as if he said to me: I like you very much, but if it doesn't please you I'll never say it again.

This impression came out most for Maggie when, in their easier intervals, they had only themselves to regard, and when her companion's inveteracy of never passing first, of not sitting till she was seated, of not interrupting till she appeared to give leave, of not forgetting too familiarly that in addition to being important she was also sensitive, had the effect of throwing over their intercourse a kind of silver tissue of decorum. It

The past came back to her in one of those rushing waves of emotion by which persons of sensibility are visited at odd hours.

Nora seemed by instinct to have perceived the fitness of her not speaking of her own affairs, and indeed displayed in the matter a precocious good taste.

La experiencia no es nunca limitada, y no es jamás completa; es una sensibilidad inmensa, una especie de enorme tela de araña de los más finos hilos de seda suspendida en la cámara de la conciencia, y que capta en su tejido todas las particularidades llevadas por el aire.

You Americans have such odd ways! the Baroness declared. You never ask anything outright; there seem to be so many things you can't talk about. ................. We don't like to tread upon people's toes (Chapter 6)