Sensitive Person quotes
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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."
"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."
"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."
"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."
"I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes."
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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."