Quotes About Sensitivity

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

For instance man feels the sensation of joy and depression in the center called solar plexus; however, this does not mean that joy or depression is there, but that this center is sensitive to such experiences.

you feel things real strong, leanne, even if you pretend you don't. you're my girl that way.

Have lunch, have coffee, and continue to work hard on the things that won't dry up and blow away: Your health, your career, your little art projects or poems or essays, your odd new half-interests, the complicated folds of your sensitivity and your darkness, and your belief in a world that wants you to be happy.

I've been all over the place in all kinds of living situations. Due to the fact that my mind is my own worst enemy. In a way I am perpetually and permanently in a state of rehabilitation m in an attempt to rehabilitate from the shock of being born.Some people are too sensitive to withstand that.

Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.

My God, it can recognise another human being when it's hit over the head with one.

Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.

Empathy involves at least emotional sensitivity to others and at most an ability to understand another's point of view.

The tears of childhood fall fast and easily, and evil be to him who makes them flow.

We are all born with a rut radar. Mine is finely wired, a little oversensitive maybe. Perhaps just a bit hyperactive. Twenty steady boyfriends before turning 16, a new best friend 12 times a year, switched college majors every time I met someone who seemed exactly like the sort of person I really, really wanted to be. I'm not fickle. I'm just never there yet.

She's keyed up," Duncan said as Eve pulled up to the driveway. "You better talk to her, woman-to-woman." "Good idea, because you know we don't even have to speak to each other," Eve said, putting the car into park. "Our uteruses can communicate telepathically.

Our cleaning lady? Of course not. That would be inappropriate and extremely offensive. Why would I dare to assume she didn't want her baby? The thought never crossed my mind and, frankly, I'm surprised it crossed yours.

If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, I and my family could have a tragedy.

Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.

Remember, you cannot be responsible for the happiness of other people. You can do your best to be sensitive to the needs and desires of others, but some people will not be happy no matter how much you do for them. If you decided you were responsible for their happiness, you could drive yourself completely up the nearest wall.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.

Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.