Quotes About Sensitivity

Jane started crying, which didn't surprise Ray in the least. The woman had the appearance of a professional watering pot—her

Life, he decided, was never a question of accumulating material things, nor in the struggle for reputation, but in the widening and deepening of perception, increasing the sensitivity of the faculties, of an awareness of the world in which one lives.

Well, it's very distracting when we have to keep saying every card out loud," complained East. "I'm sorry my partner's blindness makes life so difficult for you," said Gloria.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions,' returned Jo sharply. Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that; and to be bidden to 'run away, dear' is still more trying to us.

How beautiful that is! said Laurie softly, for he was quick to see and feel beauty of any kind.

But young as she was, Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…

Hay muchas Beths en el mundo, tímidas y apocadas, refugiadas en su rincón hasta que alguien las necesita.

few are the mortals to whom we give this lovely gift; what to you is now so full of music and of light, to others is but a pleasant summer world; they never know the language of butterfly or bird or flower, and they are blind to all that I have given you the power to see.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

I love plants. For the longest time I thought that they died without pain. But of course after I had argued with Mary she showed me clippings on how plants went into shock when pulled up by their roots, and even uttered something indescribable, like panic, a drawn-out vowel only registered on special instruments. Still, I love their habit of constant return. I don't like cut flowers. Only the ones that grow in the ground.

If Senior tried to shut out his critics, Junior was hypersensitive to insinuations about his father.

About his nose, Pierpont could be more sensitive than he was about his trusts.

An over-sensitive person in the country is always a strain.

La pasión se ocultaba en los altibajos de su temperamento, en sus crisis melancólicas, en su sensibilidad de nervio en carne viva.

grinned. "That is what you call instinct. You feel the trust. You know by instinct that you can trust me, and the same instinct tells you that you cannot trust Tommy Decker. Animals have the best instincts.

Never ask a man his opinion of a woman's dress when he is desperately and abjectly in love with the wearer.

A wise person would have known this, but sometimes it is better to feel a prickle than to be wise.

People are born from the womb of the world with different sensitivities, and the world needs every single one of you to experience it fully, so that it might be fully experienced.

Listen! 'To Benny, who hears the cries of the world.' Isn't that beautiful? And it's so true, don't you think?

Very few people of our generation or the next will reach adulthood without experiencing the sort of unhappiness you can't really deal with on your own. We're still in the minority, so the media lump us together as The Oversensitive Young, or whatever the latest catchphrase is, but eventually that will change.

Sinteen-years -old girls are probably the most sensitive and perceptive group of people in this entire country.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Bleeding hearts were the easiest to confuse.