Quotes about Sensitivity

Be tough minded but tenderhearted.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.

The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.

A person's toothache means more to that person than a famine in China which kills a million people. A boil on one's neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Think of that the next time you start a conversation.

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

God gave people tear ducts for a good reason, and folks shouldn't be too stubborn to use them.

She cried easily. Evidence that she felt much, and most often for other people. A rare and beauty filled gift.

In school, I sat in the back, seldom raising my hand and never raising my voice. But the absence of verbal expression did not mean I was dull to the needs of others. Didn't mean I couldn't think and feel. Didn't absorb. I thought and felt just fine. Absorbed like a sponge. My peripheral vision was twenty-ten. I cried when strangers hurt. Laughed when others smiled.

World cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.