Quotes About Sensitivity

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

I don't know what you're feeling, I won't even pretend

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

Transcendent generosity is simply a willingness to be open and do whatever is necessary in the moment, without any philosophical or religious rationale. Seeing someone in need, you're willing to share your wealth, your happiness, or your wisdom, and you're also willing to share in the pain of others. Yet when you give, you need to do so with the awareness that your gift will be both appropriate and helpful.

a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind.

His thumb rubbed the center of my palm. All my nerves concentrated there, alive to every movement of his skin on mine.

Thinking critically about why you assume what you assume can make you sensitive, over time, to the cultural mores you bring to the biblical text.

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel.

Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart.

He was inaccurate because he was sensitive.

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant. She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it.

Indeed, he was sensitive rather than responsive. In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream.

Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

In building the helping relationship, encouragement—via positive reinforcement—certainly seems appropriate. But if it is not sensitively handled, such encouragement can quickly become patronizing and insulting. My

A Christian, who realizes he has been made in the image of the Creator God and is therefore meant to be creative on a finite level, should certainly have more understanding of his responsibility to treat God's creation with sensitivity, and should develop his talents to do something to beautify his little spot on the earth's surface.

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

Remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and gave you the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation. Creativity is His gift to you and the 'raw materials' to be put together in various ways are His gift to you as well.