Sensitive Quotes

“Sensitive people often need the Golden Rule in reverse: Treat yourself the way you treat others.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Physical and emotional sensitivity are so closely linked that if you take Tylenol to numb a headache, research shows you will score lower on an empathy test until the medication wears off.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“you should have at least one space that brings immediate peace. That’s where your sensitive sanctuary comes in. This”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“The Sensitive Way is the belief, deep down, that quality of life is more valuable than raw achievement, that human connection is more satisfying than dominating others, and that your life is more meaningful when you spend time reflecting on your experiences and leading with your heart.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“we believe that sensitivity is often the missing personality trait. It is missing from our daily conversations and from our awareness as a society.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“You’re Too Sensitive” Is Gaslighting”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Being hypervigilant to others is exhausting.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“When someone crosses an important boundary, you should speak up.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Sensitive people, it appears, are not hothouse orchids who wither in anything but the most perfect conditions. Rather, they are akin to succulents: No drop of nourishment escapes them, and they continue to absorb it until they swell with lovely blossoms.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Mirror neurons are motor cells in the brain, the kind that help you move your body. But they also specialize in copying the way other people move and, by extension, the emotions that other people express. Think of it this way: If someone is staring”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“You feel the highs higher and the lows lower, and you easily become overstimulated in the kind of environment that Simmel described.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Simmel spoke of a world where urban citizens were so bombarded with sensory input that they became apathetic. More than a hundred years later, the bombardment has only gotten worse. If you’re a sensitive person,”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Sensitivity is a flaw. Only the strong survive. Being emotional is a sign of weakness. Empathy will get you taken advantage of. The more you can endure, the better. It’s shameful to rest or ask for help. As a result, many sensitive”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“from their environment, process it more deeply, and are ultimately more shaped by it. Much of this deep processing happens unconsciously, and many sensitive people aren’t even aware that they do it. This process applies to everything a sensitive person takes in.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“People who are sensitive do more of both. They naturally pick up more information”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“As of 2020, we produce 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data per day. At that rate, roughly 90 percent of all the data in human history has been created in the last five years. Every scrap of this data, in theory, is aimed at someone’s brain.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“The world had become too fast, too loud, too much.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Humanity, Simmel was saying, was too sensitive for such a life.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“from the role of money in human happiness to why people flirt. If city officials hoped he would praise progress, however, they were badly mistaken. Simmel took the podium and promptly threw out the topic he’d been given. He wasn’t there to talk about the glories of modern life. He was there to discuss its effect on the human soul. Innovation, he suggested, had not just given us more efficiency; it gave us a world that taxed the human brain and its ability to keep up. He described a nonstop stream of “external and internal stimuli” in a loud, fast, overscheduled world. Far ahead of his time, he suggested that people have a”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“One of the speakers was the early sociologist Georg Simmel. Although little known today, Simmel was influential in his time. He was one of the first people to apply a scientific approach to human interaction, and his work tackled every part of modern life,”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“I can’t stand chaos. I hate loud environments. Art makes me cry. No, I’m not crazy; I’m a textbook example of a highly sensitive person. —Anne Marie Crosthwaite”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Despite living in a loud, fast, and too-much world—one that is increasingly harsh and divided—we believe there has never been a better time to be sensitive.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“The Toughness Myth, in other words, robs us of something. It leads to harmful choices about our well-being, our work-life balance, how we allow ourselves to be treated, and how we treat one another. Perhaps, as Simmel warned, when we try to tough out an overwhelming world, we really do lose our compassion.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“We teach children the Golden Rule: Treat other people the way you would want to be treated. Sensitive people often need the Golden Rule in reverse: Treat yourself the way you treat others.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Empathy, as the saying goes, is “your pain in my heart”—and it can sometimes be overwhelming. But if you step back and think about it, the people who are suffering don’t actually need us to feel what they’re feeling for us to help them.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“While empathy is one of the greatest gifts of all sensitive people, it can also feel like a curse. That’s because empathy can be painful.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Being gifted doesn’t mean you’ve been given something. It means, you have something to give.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Other people’s moods really affect you. You easily absorb emotions from others, taking on their feelings as if they were your own.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“When we call someone sensitive, what we really mean is they can’t take a joke, are easily offended, cry too much, get their feelings hurt too easily, or can’t handle feedback or criticism. When we refer to ourselves as sensitive, what we often mean is we have a habit of overreacting. Sensitivity is associated with softness and femininity; in general, men especially do not want to be seen as sensitive. A sensitive subject is one that is likely to offend, hurt, anger, or embarrass the listeners. Likewise, the word sensitive is often paired with an intensifier: Don’t be too sensitive; why are you so sensitive?”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

“Their demanding outer world had devoured their inner world and, with it, their ability to connect.”
― Jenn Granneman, Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World