{"quotes":[{"text":"Why is sensitivity perceived as being dangerous? When we’re sensitive, we feel things we were taught not to feel. When we’re sensitive, we are completely open to attack. When we’re sensitive, we are awake and in touch with our hearts – and this can be very threatening to the status quo indeed.","author":"Aletheia Luna","tags":["bravery","courage","empath","empaths","highly-sensitive-people","intuition","sensitive","sensitiveness","sensitivity"],"id":616,"author_id":"Aletheia+Luna"},{"text":"As empaths, one of the quickest ways to completely losing our grounding in reality is by deferring our needs and wants in relationships.","author":"Mateo Sol","tags":["caring-for-others","emotional-intelligence","empath","empaths","highly-sensitive-people","intuition","self-sacrifice","sensitivity"],"id":3587,"author_id":"Mateo+Sol"},{"text":"A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["appearance","bullshit","character","dislike","flaw","imperfection","individuality","inspection","irritation","regret","sensitive","sensitivity","shell","trait","traits","unloveable"],"id":4721,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"But centuries of time have not made me insensitive.","author":"Christopher Pike","tags":["emotions-and-attitude","feelings","sensitivity","time-and-change"],"id":10120,"author_id":"Christopher+Pike"},{"text":"Being sensitive is a gift that fosters peace. Help create a kinder, gentler world by embracing it.","author":"Amy Leigh Mercree","tags":["create-a-better-world","inspirational","joyful-living","joyful-living-101","life","about-life","of-the-day","of-the-week","twitter","sensitive","sensitivity"],"id":23360,"author_id":"Amy+Leigh+Mercree"},{"text":"Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see...Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive...","author":"Ashok Kallarakkal","tags":["ashok-kallarakkal","curiosity-kills-the-katha","empathy","humn","life","palette-of-love","percieve","of-the-day","on-life","to-live-by","see","sensitivity"],"id":25820,"author_id":"Ashok+Kallarakkal"},{"text":"Everyone in my family always spares one another's feelings. It leaves little room for honesty.","author":"Sara Farizan","tags":["family","feelings","sensitivity","truth"],"id":35631,"author_id":"Sara+Farizan"},{"text":"Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["imagination","nervousness","sensitivity","worry"],"id":40081,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"},{"text":"My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep I fear I will drown.Creatively, it's a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it's exhausting, as I tread water to keep myself from sinking.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["creativity","emotions","feelings","real-life","sensitivity"],"id":43890,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of plastic sheets, suffocating the earth one square inch at a time.","author":"Nicole Bonomi","tags":["choice","creativity","expression","freedom","law-of-attraction","sensitivity","speak","truth","words"],"id":47138,"author_id":"Nicole+Bonomi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":106,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}