Quotes About Sensitivity

The opposite of love is not hate; its opposite is indifference.

Over the course of minutes to hours, hormonal effects are predominantly contingent and facilitative. Hormones don't determine, command, cause, or invent behaviors. Instead they make us more sensitive to the social triggers of emotionally laden behaviors and exaggerate our preexisting tendencies in those domains.

Thus political orientation about social issues reflects sensitivity to visceral disgust and strategies for coping with such disgust.

Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact with him, turned into a deep moral shock.

And my eyes fill up with tears because this man's very fingertips are in love with me.

They came and they went; they ached and pained. They laughed privately and cried to themselves as if heeding a way- off silent call. They were forever childish, sweet and convulsive. They heard sound the way dog heard sound. They were like the moon- they changed every eight days.

El dolor experimentado en mi vida me había hecho extremadamente sensible al sufrimiento de los demás, y hacía que me sintiese plenamente motivado a aliviarlo.

Rilla's heart skipped a beat - or, if that be a pysiological impossibility, she thought it did.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one's feelings.

The trouble with you, Anne, is that you're thinking too much about yourself. You should just think of Mrs. Allan and what would be nicest and most agreeable to her, said Marilla, hitting for once in her life on a very sound and pithy piece of advice. Anne instantly realized this.

Dear God, help him and help the mother . . . help all mothers everywhere. We need so much help, with the little sensitive, loving hearts and minds that look to us for guidance and love and understanding.

You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw - it's no wonder she hides it away.

How sympathetic you look, Anne…as sympathetic as only seventeen can look.

Yet he may have committed what might be considered far greater sins that yet would not inflict on any one a tithe of the humiliation which his teasing inflicted on a child's sensitive mind.

Never, if you can help it, be the bringer of ill news

she never said anything that would hurt anyone's feelings—which may be a negative talent but is likewise a rare and enviable one.

Oh, I like things to have handles even if they are only geraniums. It makes them seem more like people. How do you know but that it hurts a geranium's feelings just to be called a geranium and nothing else? You wouldn't like to be called nothing but a woman all the time.

Anne, her zaman kimsenin duygular?n? incitmememiz gerektiÄŸini söyler. Ä°nsan?n duygular?n?n incinmesi çok korkunç bir ÅŸey gibi görünüyor.

She felt as if love was all about her and around her, breathed out from some great, invisible, hovering Tenderness.

those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and that the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

I'm afraid you both cry and laugh far too easily.

Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.

I wish you'd stop talking about your own death, Gus said, in a joking tone. It ain't genteel.