Sensitive Quotes

• We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Positivity, Suffering

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.112, Penguin

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• We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Pain, Mental Health

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with. I am very emotional. Sometimes to the point of where I just want to hide away, because I can't get a handle on myself.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Emotional, Tunes, Want

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

  Leona Lewis

  Upset, Cry, Persons

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Manners

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.

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• My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Weakness, Sensitivity

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• How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Faith, Eye

  "The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are". Book by Alan Watts, 1966.

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• You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Yankees, Care

  "Derek Jeter: In his own words". Sports Illustrated interview, www.si.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Women, Sensitive Man, Way

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• I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.

  Henri Barbusse

  Echoes, People, Looks

  Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.65, 1st World Publishing

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• The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Creative, Mind, Fields

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• I think people are getting more and more -unfortunately - inured to violence. People are less sensitive to things they should wake up about.

  Tony Todd

  Thinking, People, Wake Up

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Sensitive Person, Giving

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• Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

  Pema Chodron

  Wise, Knowing, Humanity

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

  Donald Hall

  Eye, Sound, Ears

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• I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop.

  Sy Montgomery

  Intelligent, Emotional, Pigs

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• The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Blow, Creative, Joy

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Believe, Thinking

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• Yoga practice can make us more and more sensitive to subtler and subtler sensations in the body. Paying attention to and staying with finer and finer sensations within the body is one of the surest ways to steady the wandering mind.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

  Freddy Fender

  Love, Romantic, Hurt

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• I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Beauty, World, Can Do

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• I'm not the quiet sensitive little guy I was. I can't be. There's just too much after me.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Guy, Littles, Too Much

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• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Behaviour

  Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.

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• Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Artist, Men, Sensitive Man

  Quoted in S Hinz Caspar David Friedrich in Briefen und Bekenntnissen (1968).

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• It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Thinking, Wounded

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.32

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