Quotes About Sensitivity

I am too much in the sun.

way I dealt with that great classic of modern adventure, Kon-Tiki Months later, watching this book remain first on the best-seller list for unbelievable week after week, I was able to rationalize my blindness by saying to myself that if McGraw-Hill had paid me more than ninety cents an hour I might have been more sensitive to the nexus between good books and filthy lucre.

Wczoraj, kiedy Twoje imiÄ™ ktoÅ› wymówiÅ' przy mnie gÅ'oÅ›no, to poczuÅ'am jakby ró?a przez otwarte wpadÅ'a okno.

Pos?uchaj jak mi pr?dko bije Twoje serce.

My fingers, which a second before had been taste buds savouring the food a little ahead of my mouth, became dirty under his gaze. They froze like criminals caught in the act. I didn't dare lick them. I wiped them guiltily on my napkin. He had no idea how deeply those words wounded me. They were like nails being driven into my flesh. I picked up the knife and fork. I had hardly ever used such instruments. My hands trembled. My sambar lost its taste.

Patience and kindness don't show up on demand; they're disciplines that require constant practice, and there is no better boot camp for learning those skills than hitching your survival to your ability to discern—and respect—the needs of another creature

In sum, secure attachment at all ages depends on the sensitivity of attachment figures. The results of intervention studies with infants, parents, and couples provide compelling evidence that sensitivity is a skill that can be taught and learned, and that can transform troubled relationships into well-functioning, satisfying ones.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

Pasti ada korban pada setiap peperangan. Tugas seorang panglima adalah memenangkan peperangan, bahkan jika itu terpaksa mengalami kekalahan dalam beberapa pertempuran di dalam perjalanan. Bila aku terpaksa mengorbankan ribuan jiwa demi menyelamatkan jutaan orang, aku akan melakukannya. Kita berada dalam perjuangan untuk hidup. Sebagai pemimpin dari negeri ini aku tidak dapat memberi tempat pada rasa sensitif yang berlebihan.

My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.

Neden ?efkat, yaralanmaktan daha çok incitir insan??

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

Clara Claiborne Park

application of force. How much else have I not registered? Her prosody

She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.

Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?

Dá-me a tua mão desconhecida, que a vida está me doendo, e não sei como falar – a realidade é delicada demais, só a realidade é delicada, minha irrealidade e minha imaginação são mais pesadas.

Living leaves me atremble.

Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her.

If my life is transformed into it-self, the thing I today call sensitivity will not exist — it will be called indifference. But I cannot yet grasp that way. It is as if hundreds of thousands of years from now we are finally no longer what we feel and think: we shall have something that more closely resembles a "mood" than an idea. We shall be the living matter revealing itself directly, ignorant of word, surpassing thought which is always grotesque.

Y a veces la gente demasiado sensible camina por una cornisa muy fina entre la realidad y sus pensamientos.

People feel hurt when you point out the reality that forms experience because the reality is not their emotional experience.

After it happened I was at a loss for words. Haven't you said this yourself? Haven't you said this to a close friend who early in your friendship, when distracted, would call you by the name of her black housekeeper? You assumed you two were the only black people in her life. Eventually she stopped doing this, though she never acknowledged her slippage. And you never called her on it (why not?) and yet, you don't forget.