Quotes About Sensitivity

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

Employ empathy.

You never know what's going on in someone else's life and that you can't always understand how what you say or what you do - no matter how big or small it may seem to you, it could be the end of the world for someone else.

For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

How would I feel if.... and just feel. Feel how other people feel, how the oceans, forests, and animals feel how the Earth feels.

By opening blockages in the energy pathways and reawakening our innate ability to sense energy flow, we can recover our health and natural balance. When we develop sensitivity to ki, we will be able to reach our body's potential.

Palau de la Música: un reino de mil detalles que ansiaba encontrar el orden en la emoción y la sensibilidad del espectador.

Tanto le cegaba a uno la felicidad como para no percatarse del dolor ajeno?

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.

I am inclined to think that in one sense we have to feel more than others—yes, doubly more—since the very attempt to restrain natural promptings entails suffering. Imagine boys—and girls too—brought up not to resort to the shedding of a tear or the uttering of a groan for the relief of their feelings, and there is a physiological problem whether such effort steels their nerves or makes them more sensitive.

The cultivation of tender feelings breeds considerate regard for the sufferings of others. Modesty and complaisance, actuated by respect for others' feelings, are at the root of politeness.

Women's imagination – unlike men's, I would argue – does not always need the erotic equivalent of Semtex to ensure detonation.

A gentleman who doesn't have the physical and/or emotional sensitivity to use condoms couldn't possibly possess the self-confidence required to fully procure the infinite sounding of pleasure from the depth of a woman's being, via the endlessness of her cunt.

This kind of measuring DOWN to an average mean, clearly obliterates recognition of ultra- and super-sensitivities, the realization of which might actually be of extreme importance and relevance.

Before saying anything, always think to yourself, "Since my life is not a porno, will this creep her out?"

Ma non è cosa oziosa dire che il cuore, l'animo e lo spirito di un bambino possono essere spezzati [...] L'amore può morire altrettanto facilmente, se non più amaramente, nel cuore di un bambino che in quello di un adulto.

And that's what's important: how you react to someone while they're sleeping and not exerting any influence over you.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.

Sometimes, honesty really wasn't the best policy. Or, at least, it wasn't the kindest policy.

Il modo in cui le lumache eccitavano la macabra fantasia di nostra sorella, ci spinse, mio fratello e me, a una ribellione, che era insieme di solidarietà con le povere bestie straziate, di disgusto per il sapore delle lumache cotte e d'insofferenza per tutto e per tutti [...].

Credo che tutti abbiamo nella nostra coscienza come nel nostro corpo dei punti delicati e coperti cui volentieri si pensa.

Sólo lo triste, los depresivo, lo susceptible, lo delicado, lo quebradizo me conmovía y me parecía bello.