Quotes About Sensitivity

Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

The very animals whose smell is most offensive to us have no idea that they are offensive, and are not offensive to one another.

First, it does not reach people who may be out of touch with their feelings.

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

Well, don't fart or you'll scare the deer," he continued seriously. "They have very sensitive noses and ears.

The art of living ... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past ... on the other. It consists in being completely sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

You Russians like to think you're poets but perhaps you're just touchy.

Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry?

considerate in respect to the feelings of all who were connected with him

Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet side—if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.

He looked up abruptly, almost as though he had sensed her entering the room. She found herself suddenly afraid that he had the ability to do exactly that.

Il faut avoir l'esprit dur et le coeur sensible

Nuestro amor tirita y el sol también.

Mientras no haya superado el gusto al placer, seré sensible al vértigo del suicidio.

Sincopele în comunicare sunt f?cute dintr-o prea mare sensibilitate la reac?iile celuilalt, din intoleran?? la suferin??, la dezam?gire sau la mânia celuilalt. Dintr-o prea mare reac?ie la reac?ie.

Grow antennae, not horns.

To get to know someone new, you need to touch a lot.

Tennison was about to reply when Burkin caught her eye. He gripped her elbow and whispered, "Leave the room, let him cry, leave him . . 

Toti knew, someone with a strong sense

is not surprising that biological systems like human beings are sensitive to external signals, such as geomagnetic disturbances. Magnetic fields are caused by the flow of electrons and atoms with charge, known as ions, and whenever magnetic forces change, they alter the direction of the flow of these atoms and particles. Ultimately,

His fingertips lightly and unintentionally grazed her face and her ears, and Debbie's don't-get-in-trouble self felt itself making room for her alert-alert-something-new-is-happening self.

Offence is so easily given. And where the 'minority' issue is involved, the rules seem to shift about: most of the time a person who is female/black/disabled/gay wants this not to be their defining characteristic; you are supposed to be blind to it. But then, on other occasions, you are supposed to observe special sensitivity, or show special respect.

I stuff because: I don't feel safe enough to confront this person. I don't have the energy or the time to get into a conflict right now. I don't know how to address the issue. I don't want to seem hypersensitive. I don't want to get rejected. I don't want to lose control. I don't want to make things worse, so I convince myself I can just let it go.

I was so caught up in the rush of superficial things in my world that I missed hearing the cries for help in someone else's world.