Quotes About Sensitivity

Children did this. They sensed when there was something controversial or sensitive and they pushed and pushed like tiny prosecutors.

You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else's tragedy - but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you.

And Jeremy, her earnest face crumpled. She looked so embarrassed, I felt like I'd kicked a kitten. She was falling all over herself to apologize.

I knew there is nothing more patronizing to an Infertile than to hear a new mother complaining, as if that will make you feel better for not having your own baby. It's like telling a blind person, "Oh, sure, you get to see mountains and sunsets, but there are also rubbish dumps and pollution! Terrible!

And of course Madison would have been smart enough to pick up on Alice's resentment. She was already a child who felt everything far too deeply. She'd seen her mother's friend killed in an accident and then her parents separated. No

Sam always said she was overly sensitive to sounds because she was a musician, but she didn't think that was true; he was just astonishingly insensitive to them.

Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.

was funny how she'd always thought she had ample supplies of empathy; it turned out that to be truly empathetic she had to experience it.

your husband tells you about finding a corpse, you can't then immediately follow it with, "Fancy some pasta?

Oh for Christ's sake, now she is crying over some imaginary cheerful lady.

Frances made a tremendous effort not to comment on his height, as she knew from her six-foot friend Jen that tall people were well aware they were tall.

It seemed like everything he was feeling was right there in his eyes—a hint of nerves, a touch of laughter. No

One should be able to say anything to a close friend, he reflected, and yet part of friendship was knowing what not to say and when not to say it

He seems smaller, his hug without much muscle.

Some people are like that. They think anyone's amusement must be at their expense.

never, never frown in her direction, because she takes everything very personally.

When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally, to be religious. In fact, it's because I believe in God that I'm concerned about God's creatures. The religious impulse is primary.

Infants have great intuition, because intuition's about all they've got.

Soy de la opinión de que en la ceguera hacia la belleza no hay nada que implique necesariamente una ceguera hacia la fealdad, por la que Kevin ha desarrollado desde siempre una notable sensibilidad. Es muy posible que la existencia de tantos y tan diferentes matices entre lo sórdido y lo exquisito tenga por objeto que ni al espíritu más ruin se le niegue todo refinamiento.

Y cómo se supone que uno puede ser «comprensivo» antes de comprender?

at the University of Ottawa in Canada, a yoga teacher was shamed into suspending her class, "because yoga originally comes from India." She offered to retitle the course "Mindful Stretching.

You find that with children who've shared a childhood trauma: it's like a fine wire that runs between you; you can feel the tug on it from time to time.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

You don't annoy me." Carefully he rebuttoned the placket of her shirt. "I thought you did, at first. But now I realize it was more like the feeling you get when your foot's been asleep. And when you start moving, the blood coming back into it is uncomfortable . . . but also good. Do you understand what I mean?" "Yes. I make your feet tingle." A smile came to his lips. "Among other things.