Quotes About Sensitivity

Women, poets, and especially artists, like cats; delicate natures only can realize their sensitive systems.

And other times—too often, maybe—I don't dare have an opinion in case it upsets anyone.

Very few people can watch others endure humiliation without recognizing the part they play in increasing it.

It goes back to women's sensitivity to others and their desire to maintain connection at almost any cost. Often, women won't even ask at all. They'll "intuit" whether a request might cause somebody discomfort, hold themselves back from asking, and then secretly be angry at the person they haven't asked for not being willing to give it to them! In

It is an important experience to be in the presence of a thinking creature who is crying. A weak, broken creature who is crying creates the same impression as an omnipotent god whom one implores; for in its weakness and defeat it rises above the human condition.

I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

Talvez não mais se chorasse numa sociedade em que só houvesse puras inteligências, mas provavelmente se risse; por outro lado, almas invariavelmente sensíveis, afinadas em uníssono com a vida, numa sociedade onde tudo se estendesse em ressonância afetiva, nem conheceriam nem compreenderiam o riso.

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. In order to "give a meaning" to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what one frames through the viewfinder. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of the mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

If there is one point, it's humanity, it's life, the richness of life. The thing is simply to be sensitive.

Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethoscope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Base yourself on what you feel, even when you alone feel it.

Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them. The essence of good manners is not exclusivity, nor exclusion of any kind, but sensitivity. To practice good manners is to confer upon others not just consideration but esteem; it's to bathe others in a commodity best described by noted speller Aretha Franklin.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

The most sensitive,the most delicate of instruments is the mind of a little child

My dick is a macho shithead but the rest of me is a sensitive, caring and gentle guy.

Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart. - from "The Iron

His mother called them his gems and often asked him why he liked things that were worn and old. It would have been hard to tell her. But there was something about the way in which the link of a chain was worn or the thread on a bolt or a castor-wheel that gave him a vague feeling of pain when he ran his fingers over them. They were like worn shoe-soles or very thin dimes. You never saw them wear, you only knew they were worn, obscurely aching

And see! she stirs!She starts—she moves—she seems to feelThe thrill of life along her keel.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness.

When she heard this Sonya blushed so that tears came into her eyes and, unable to bear the looks turned upon her, ran away into the dancing hall, whirled round it at full speed with her dress puffed out like a balloon, and, flushed and smiling, plumped down on the floor.

Levin had long before made the observation that when one is uncomfortable with people from their being excessively amenable and meek, one is apt very soon after to find things intolerable from their touchiness and irritability.