Highly Sensitive Person Quotes & Sayings

But the same receptivity to experience that can make life difficult for the highly sensitive also builds their consciences. Aron tells of one sensitive teen who persuaded his mother to feed a homeless person he'd met in the park, and of another eight-year-old who cried — Susan Cain

Sometimes a shadow rises, and death lies nameless in the dark. — Diana Gabaldon

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage. — Sade Adu

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. — Peter Saint James

I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship. — Jonas Mekas

Happiness is greatest when shared with a sibling or a child. — Abigail George

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. — David Novak

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new. — Vinod Khosla

A reward-sensitive person is highly motivated to seek rewards - from a promotion to a lottery jackpot to an enjoyable evening out with friends. Reward sensitivity motivates us to pursue goals like sex and money, social status and influence. — Susan Cain

There were moments in life, Marion thought, when you reached back, baton in hand, feeling the runner behind you. Felt the clasp of their fingers resonating through the wood, the release of your hand, which then flew forward, empty, into the space ahead of you. — Erica Bauermeister

As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast. — Kevin Allen

Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength. — Jim George

The highly sensitive [introverted] tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation, rather than materialistic or hedonistic. They dislike small talk. They often describe themselves as creative or intuitive. They dream vividly, and can often recall their dreams the next day. They love music, nature, art, physical beauty. They feel exceptionally strong emotions
sometimes acute bouts of joy, but also sorrow, melancholy, and fear. Highly sensitive people also process information about their environments
both physical and emotional
unusually deeply. They tend to notice subtleties that others miss
another person's shift in mood, say, or a lightbulb burning a touch too brightly. — Susan Cain

Am I too much for the world, or is the world too much for me? — Kelli Jae Baeli

I don't believe in luck.'

'Then it's for blessings. God gives us children in blessings. It's never by chance.'

- Charisse & Nevada, Ch. 33 — Sylvia Hubbard

Make peace with yourself and you make peace with the world. - Charmainism — Charmaine Smith Ladd

Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive sort, then you're more apt than the average person to feel pleasantly overwhelmed by Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" or a well-turned phrase or an act of extraordinary kindness. You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience. — Susan Cain