Quotes About Sensitivity

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is about to be sold, the other to be buried.

The three words women most want to hear from a man are, "You lost weight".

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.

Nobody cares that youre smart and nobody cares that your kids dont have bruises.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint is not intended.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

There is no solution. I can see no possibility of peace in my lifetime. So long as they continue with their attacks, we will continue our defenses. We are trapped in tits for tats. It is impossible for someone so sensitive like myself to live life this way.

Allergic to garlic?" He tore a chunk of bread and chomped on it. "Might as well give up breathing." That too, but not because of allergies.

Estaré reseco? Sentimentalmente, digo.

De todas aquellas manos, la suya era la única que transmitía vida.

El dolor lo pone a uno exageradamente receptivo.

Lo que en un ambiente es simplemente honrado, en otro puede ser simplemente imbécil.

Mi madre... poseía una sensibilidad en constante alerta, que tanto mi padre como ella misma tenían por su falla más visible.

Ya se que hay mujeres que son eso y nada más. Pero hay otras, la mayoría, que no son eso, y otras más, que aunque lo sean, son además otra cosa, un ser humano complicado, egocéntrico, extremadamente sensible

No es muy inteligente ni sensible y gozará despreocupadamente de la vida; vivirá sin enterarse de su insignificancia, y ésta es una variante, acaso la única posible, de la felicidad.

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

La literatura quizá hace a los seres humanos más aptos para la infelicidad, porque despierta unos apetitos y deseos que no pueden cumplirse, pero enriquece la sensibilidad de las personas y las da una comprensión mayor del mundo. Los hace…sentir mucho más aptos para la libertad.

The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living.

Spontaneity is an underappreciated dimension of spirituality. In fact, spiritual maturity has less to do with long-range visions than it does with moment-by-moment sensitivity to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. And it is our moment-by-moment sensitivity to the Holy Spirit that turns life into an everyday adventure.

At a certain point, professors stopped being usefully sensitive and became more like careful retailers who have it as a cardinal point of doctrine never to piss the customer off.

Loud noises, bright lights, the motion of a passing car, all made him swoon.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.