Sensitive Person Quotes

• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Fall, Carpe Diem

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.506, Broadview Press

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• As a sensitive person around other people, you feel their desires, you feel their angers, and you feel their frustrations. You begin to believe that these desires, angers, and frustrations are yours.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Believe, Buddhism

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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, Giving, Feelings

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Children

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.

  Beth Gibbons

  Emotional, Impulsive, Persons

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• It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

  Rollo May

  Life, Intuition, Hints

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.

  Richard Simmons

  Gay, People, Supportive

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• Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?

  Robert Nozick

  Wise, People, House

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.

  Fiona Apple

  Thinking, How You Feel, Know Yourself

  "Fiona Apple's Cinderella Story". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. October 4, 1996.

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• The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But I also am a very sensitive person and have many heavier feelings. It can be tiresome after a while to only do comedy, especially after you grow as a person. It starts to feel like you're playing an older version of yourself.

  Jenny Slate

  People, Joy, Feelings

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.

  Jim Brown

  Two, Loyal, Way

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• Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls

  Robert Walser

  Wall, Cities, Ancient

  Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.43, Profile Books

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• Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

  Rick Yancey

  Personality, Habit, Used

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.132, Penguin

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• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  Rollo May

  Country, Courage, Moving

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• I always think before I speak. I'm not the sort who will just say anything that comes to my mind. I'm a very emotional and sensitive person. But I'm also very strong and know my mind well.

  Deepika Padukone

  Strong, Emotional, Thinking

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• A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just because they are sensitive. The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs.Analysis helps. It helped me. But still, the last eight, nine years I've been pretty messed up, a mess pretty much.

  Marlon Brando

  Hurt, Eight, Years

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• Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

  Dianna Agron

  Rejection, Age, Used

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

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• I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

  Saul Williams

  Simple, Keys, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a very sensitive person, and I feel what makes me vulnerable. But I see that as a good thing. I really enjoy experiencing all the different emotions in life.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Different, Emotion, Vulnerable

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