If sensing so badly of yourself you also sense a need to make me sense that, then I sense sadly that you cannot make better sense … sadder still if you cannot sense my sincerity.

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Call the world, if you please, “the Vale of Soul Making”. Then you will find out the use of the world….There may be intelligences or sparks of the divinity in millions — but they are...

anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.

Ah, I believe Schacht. Only too willingly; that’s to say, I think what he says is absolutely true, for the world is incomprehensibly crass, tyrannical, moody, and cruel to sickly and sensitive people. Well, Schacht...

Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it–later in life he almost completely slew it–but at fifteen it made him consider himself a great deal worse than other boys… unscrupulousness… the...

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereof – also determines cultural tenor.

For a moment she knew exactly what he was thinking, not just about Tom, but about her, and himself, and all of life, and she liked the way he saw things. She could spend her...

We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don’t know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show...

It is… axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the...

Hemlock’s attentions had not only healed Aelfric’s body of its wounds but also given him curious sensitivity. Aside from the voice in his mind, he felt things in the natural surroundings: the presence of beasts,...

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism; they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves.

But centuries of time have not made me insensitive

Some people take offense like it’s a limited time offer.

A human being was connected to the world through his or her skin and how could someone with clogged pores feel the environment or be sensitive to its vibrations?

You don’t read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses...

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée’s change of key – to myself, I compared Renée to a...

Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel...

To the immature, other people are not real.

YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of...

I am never going to be less sensitive so that you feel better about being judgmental toward me.

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone’s eyes.

Perhaps that was just a hunch.”Barbee shivered again. He knew that he himself possessed what he called the “nose for news” – an intuitive perception of human motivations and the impending events that would spring...

Robin Williams is one more example, that genius people are genius for a reason, and that reason is feeling without reasoning. Depression is for sensitive people. Sensitive people sense the world as it is, and...

A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.

I will never grow thick skin so that you don’t have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

Some people are far more cognizant than others but sensitivity has its own cross to bear and ample insight, in many cases, can bring on disquietude.

I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was...

…you can’t be intimate unless you’re sensitive…

The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on...

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.

A simple look can not and will not uncover even a simple book.

Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see…Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive…

The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.

My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep i fear i will drown.Creatively, it’s a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it’s exhausting, as i tread water to keep myself...

focus” it takes you nowhere. It is the deepest anger when someone you love hurts you, and the greatest love when they don’t. It is beauty when it has purpose. It is agony when it...

Kindness is gracious demonstrate sensitivity and human warmth.

Always think twice before responding in anger. Words and written communication cannot be taken back. Chances are you’ll feel differently tomorrow.

When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.

Hard-work is more about mental sensibility and less about physical intensity

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can’t feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.

And why is it, thought Lara, that my fate is to see everything and take it all so much to heart?

yes, I have feelingsand no, I’m not afraid of themnot even the shadowy onesthat you’d rather ignorei gather them inwelcome them homegive them space to breatheand light them on glorious firejust to seewhat might be...

Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don’t mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by telling them where they...

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who’d talk.I could tell you that I like your sensitivity,when you know it’s the way that you walk.

Don’t fail through defects of temper and over-sensitiveness at moments of trial. One of the great helps to success is to be cheerful; to go to work with a full sense of life; to be...