Quotes Tagged "sensitivity"

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 and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.

Being sensitive is a gift that fosters peace. Help create a kinder, gentler world by embracing it.

True devotion and humility is when you carelessly allow yourself to fall in love with things you consider will make you look inferior, which in essence, makes you superior.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.

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

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 are wrong, and results only in putting them in straitjackets of hesitancy and self-consciousness, and weazening all vision and bravery. ...I hate it because of all the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the very first ones to get killed off. It is the brutal egotists that survive.

Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.

Music calms the soul and improves the plasticity, flexibility, and sensitivity of the perceptual world.

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

To the immature, other people are not real.

This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certainty about such a presence.

It would be disingenuous to say I don't have some sensitivity to the seamy side of issues.

MPs put ourselves at the behest of the British people, certainly, but we are not infallible or devoid of sensitivity.

Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.