The 90 best phrases of sensitivity

In a world as modern as the one we live in, being strong is paramount and it seems that personal qualities such as sensitivity are left aside.

However, to be able to face the various problems and difficult situations, as well as to enjoy life fully, sensitivity is essential. It allows us to appreciate the more subtle nuances of nature and relationships as well as of art and other forms of approach to the transcendent.

Here we will see a compilation of the best sensitivity phrases to reflect on this concept.

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The most memorable sensitivity phrases

This is a selection of the most interesting sensitivity phrases, to reflect on.

1. When people speak, listen fully. Most people never listen. (Ernest Hemingway)

Knowing how to listen is essential.

2. I am a sensitive soul, although I am covered in leather. (The Lion King)

A person who is tough on the outside can have a sensitive heart, as this iconic Disney movie reminds us.

3. Sensitivity is a wealth whose owner always wants to share. (José Narosky)

Whoever has sensitivity as a shield is an example to follow.

4. The true generosity towards the future consists in giving everything to the present (Albert Camus)

If you want to be great in the future, push yourself in the present.

5. High sensitivity can instantly seem like a curse. (Valeria Sabater)

Those who are very sensitive have their moments of doom.

6. The most sensitive beings are not always the most sensible beings. (Honoré de Balzac)

Sensitivity and good sense may not go hand in hand.

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7. Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in you (Mohsin Hamid)

Always try to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

8. Mercy shines brighter than justice. (Miguel de Cervantes)

Being compassionate stands out above justice as it is sometimes unfair.

9. Sensitivity disappears and reason begins to dull even when the notion of time and space is lost. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

When you think a lot, the sensitivity begins to fade.

10. A few words worthy of memory may suffice to illustrate great sensitivity. (Joseph Joubert)

Words also show the sensitivity of the writer.

11. Sensitivity and imagination is a basis for seeing, Seeing a basis for appreciating, Appreciating a basis for solving, and Solving a basis for Acting. (Juan Domingo Perón)

A sensitive person has the ability to act.

12. Nothing enriches the senses, sensitivity, human desires so much as reading. (Mario Vargas Llosa)

Reading a good book opens up sensitivity.

13. The highest form of knowledge is empathy. (Bill Bullard)

Being empathetic leads to great wisdom.

14. We lose the opportunity to be sensitively human whenever we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the urgency of banal matters. (Hermes Antonio Varillas Labrador)

The insignificant things in life reduce the sensitivity that exists in us.

15. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. (Tahereh Mafi)

Helping others is a task that we must all put into practice.

16. I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to show it. (Maya Angelou)

Empathy exists in each person, but very few show it.

17. Empathy is seeing with another's eyes, listening with another's ears, and feeling with another's heart. (Alfred Adler)

Before judging, you have to put yourself in the other's situation.

18. I am completely convinced that a person who reads, and who reads well, enjoys life much better, although he is also a person who has more problems in front of the world. (Mario Vargas Llosa)

Knowledge brings power.

19. There are times when a man has to fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it. (Charles Bukowski)

Continual struggles prevent you from enjoying life to its fullest.

20. For any artist worthy of the name, everything in nature is beautiful. (Auguste Rodin)

Nature is a source of inspiration.

21. Try to understand before being understood. (Stephen Covey)

You must always seek to understand others who want to be understood.

22. Where there is more sensitivity, there is martyrdom stronger. (Leonardo da Vinci)

Sensitivity can bring a lot of suffering.

23. Men of action, if they had sensitivity, would not be men of action. They couldn't do anything. Sensitivity is the solvent of action. (Azorín)

Sensitivity does not allow rudeness.

24. I'm knitting you a pair of wings, I know you'll leave when I'm done... but I can't bear to see you without flying (Andrés Castuera-Micher)

Freedom is a relationship is important and fundamental.

25. Nonsense ceases to be when they are carried out in a daring way by people with sensitivity. (Jane Austen)

A simple act gains relevance if it is done under compassion.

26. The years run, they pretend to stop and run again, but there is always someone in the middle of the dark perspective raises a torch that forces us to see the intimate side of the hours (Mario Benedetti)

There is always someone to help us deal with situations.

27. I was not able to discuss it with anyone because I felt, without being able to explain it, that my reasons could only be valid for me (Gabriel García Márquez)

You have to try to be intimate with yourself.

28. We have two ears and one mouth to hear twice as much as we speak. (Epithet)

It is better to listen than to speak.

29. The essence of humor is sensitivity, a warm and tender sympathy towards all forms of existence. (Thomas Carlyle)

Humor is wrapped in great tenderness.

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30. In the low hours, women inspire by sensitivity, passion and initiative, superior to that of men. (Jules Michelet)

Women are more sensitive than men.

31. If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, what you are will undergo a transformation. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)

Accepting oneself as we are is an act of self-love.

32. One fine day, looking back, you will realize that these years of struggle have been the most beautiful of your life (Sigmund Freud)

It is good to look back from time to time to see the fighting capacity we have.

33. Laughter will make you lighter, it will give you wings to fly. And life is full of opportunities to laugh. You just need to have sensitivity. (Osho)

Laughter is fundamental in life.

34. Never miss an opportunity that makes you happy, even if others do not like it (Oscar Wilde)

Your own happiness has to be the priority.

35. Words are never enough when what needs to be said overflows the soul. (Julio Cortazar)

Words spoken from the heart are the ones that are truly appreciated.

36. Who does not understand a look will not understand a long explanation either. (Arabic proverb)

To look into the eyes of a person is to observe through a window.

37. There are two S's, sensitivity and common sense, which should be obvious, which should almost be taken for granted, but unfortunately these are increasingly rare values. (Antonio Gala)

Having sanity and sensitivity are qualities that we must all cultivate.

38. She became so sincere in the deception that she ended up comforting herself with her own lies (Gabriel García Márquez)

Sensitivity allows us to realize the mistakes we make.

39. To be empathetic is to see the world with the eyes of the other, and not to see our world reflected in the eyes of him. (Carl Rogers)

Empathy is seeing and feeling what others feel and not reflecting our emotions on them.

40. Peace cannot be maintained by force; it can only be achieved through understanding. (Albert Einstein)

To have peace, you have to start understanding.

41. Anything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung)

When something bothers you in a person, it is indicative of who you are.

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42. To err is human, to forgive is divine (Alexander Pope)

Words that highlight the importance of forgiving.

43. In the low hours, women inspire by sensitivity, passion and initiative, superior to that of men. (Jules Michelet)

It refers to how important the figure of women is.

44. We have as much of a man how much we have of sensitivity. Our honor is precisely in proportion to our passion. (Jonh Ruskin)

A sensitive man never loses his condition because of it.

45. To understand the heart and mind of a person, don't look at what he has done, look not at what he has accomplished but at what he aspires to do. (Khalil Gibran)

Always see the best in each person.

46. The only symbol of superiority I know of is kindness. (Ludwig van Beethoven)

A noble person is completely superior to others.

47. Big egos have little ears. (Robert Schuller)

Put pride and arrogance aside.

48. Laughter is tremendously beautiful, it gives you lightness. (Osho)

Laughter helps us to have a more pleasant day.

49. Love is the only thing that grows when it is shared. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Give love and you will receive the same.

50. To those who do not feel it, it is not possible to make them understand it. (Franz Kafka)

You cannot help someone who does not want to be helped.

51. The lack of sensitivity is basically a lack of knowledge of ourselves. (Eric Hoffer)

No one has taught us how to be sensitive.

52. Sensitivity raises a barrier that intelligence cannot overcome. (Azorín)

It refers to the greatness of sensitivity.

53. The most precious gift we can give to others is our presence. When our mindfulness embraces those we love, they bloom like flowers. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

May our presence be an attention for others.

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54. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei)

Discovering the truth is quite an odyssey.

55. Anyone can look at you. But very rarely do you find someone who sees the same world that you are seeing. (John Green)

Finding someone who goes in the same direction is not easy.

56. Empathy is simply listening, retaining judgment, connecting emotionally, and communicating that incredibly healing message that you are not alone. (Brene Brown)

Hearing without judgment, speaking without offending, and giving encouragement is all there is to it.

57. The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. (Meryl Streep)

Empathy lives in us, we just have to let it flow.

58. The misery of the Spanish people, the great moral misery, is in their tawdry sensitivity to the enigmas of life and death. (Ramón María del Valle-Inclán)

There are times when we are sensitive to unimportant things.

59. If we really could understand, we would no longer be able to judge. (André Malraux)

Let us avoid at all times judging without knowing.

60. It is easier to deceive people than to convince them that they have been deceived. (Mark Twain)

Cheating is an art.

61. True joy comes with empathy. (Tim Finn)

Being empathetic brings happiness.

62. A little sensitivity is enough to make us feel helpless and fearful at times. (Mario Vargas Llosa)

When we are sensitive to many things, we can face certain fears.

63. The optimistic hope of finding the passable bridge between the limits and the infinite still blows in me (Alejandra Pizarnik)

The limits are in our mind.

64. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. (Stephen Covey)

Focus on understanding others.

65. Sensitivity, like will, are the creation of my reason. (Eugenio María de Hostos)

Being sensitive is your own decision.

66. For a sensitive man there is no such thing as chance. (Ludwig Tieck)

Sensitivity is not a matter of luck.

67. If you don't have empathy and effective personal relationships, no matter how smart you are, you're not going to get very far. (Daniel Goleman)

Empathy is above intelligence.

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68. If talking is silver, listening is gold. (Turkish proverb)

Highlight the importance of listening before speaking.

69. What distinguishes the real from the unreal is in the heart. (Russell Crowe)

The heart speaks, you have to listen to it.

70. A few words worthy of memory may suffice to illustrate great sensitivity. (Joseph Joubert)

We can describe with the most beautiful words a person with great sensitivity.

71. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. (Khalil Gibran)

Life offers painful moments where growing up hurts.

72. Happy is he who does not insist on being right, because nobody is right or everyone is right (Jorge L Borges)

Being right should not be a reason to appear superior.

73. The more forces, the more passions, the more desires, the more fury to be reflected in all the directions of intelligence that are offered to human sensitivity. (Roberto Arlt)

The strength to do things well is what stimulates sensitivity in people.

74. Empathy takes time; efficiency is for things, not for people. (Stephen Covey)

Give yourself time to apply empathy.

75. Your defects will be later for others your qualities, as long as you insist. (Jean Cocteau)

The defects turn into virtues with effort and work.

76. Help me understand what I am saying and I will explain it to you better. (Antonio Machado)

We must understand what is heard to have a solid basis to express it.

77. I have always viewed learning as a hobby and have developed many insights into its nature by cultivating sensitivity to the way I do it. (Seymour Papert)

You also learn to be sensitive.

78. True empathy requires you to step out of your own emotions to see things completely from the other person's perspective. (Anonymous)

Empathy does not focus on us, but on others.

79. You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself. (John Steinbeck)

Being empathetic means understanding the different struggles of others.

80. The more intelligent, profound and sensitive a person is, the more likely they are to come across sadness. (Alejandro Dolina)

Very sensitive people often feel intensely sad.

81. Many times, my son, the appearance of insensitivity masks an extreme sensitivity. (Friedrich Rückert)

There are people who disguise their sensitivity.

82. Empathy is the greatest virtue. From her, all virtues flow. (Eric Zorn)

Among all the virtues, the one that carries the greatest weight is empathy.

83. I am the master of my destiny, I am the captain of my soul. (William Ernest Henley)

Whoever governs himself is capable of everything.

84. It is better to understand a little than not understand much. (Anatole France)

Start small and you can move forward more easily.

85. If you want to mobilize people, you must look for the tender point. (Naguib Mahfuz)

Being a good leader means being sensitive to many situations.

86. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for goodness. (Seneca)

As long as a human being is on earth, goodness will be present.

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87. Man is always ready to deny everything that he does not understand. (Blaise Pascal)

It is easier to deny what is not understood.

88. One does not have to operate with great malice to do much harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are enough. (Charles M. Blow)

Without the presence of goodness and mercy, evil grows vertiginously.

89. I will never be made of stone, I will cry when it is necessary, I will scream when it is necessary, I will laugh when it is necessary, I will sing when it is necessary. (Rafael Alberti)

It is important to show our feelings.

90. He suffered from the soul and from the naivety of the heart: two tyrannies that always overwhelm the sensitive man. (Panait Istrati)

The innocence of the heart makes sensitivity difficult to accept.