The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Elaine N. Aron
Top 10 Best Quotes
“All virtues have a shadow.”
“I am deeply moved by things. I’d hate to miss the intense joy of that.”
“HSPs make such good targets because we react so strongly.”
“Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.”
“You were born to be among the advisors and thinkers, the spiritual and moral leaders for your society. There is every reason for pride.”
“In short, you do not have to take the job that will create excessive stress and overarousal. Someone else will take it and flourish in it. You do not have to work long hours. Indeed, it may be your duty to work shorter ones. It may not be best to advertise it, but keeping yourself healthy and in your right range of arousal is the first condition for helping others.”
“It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modelling self-destructive behaviour, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt.”
“HSPs probably make their greatest communication errors by avoiding the overarousal caused by unpleasantries. I think most people, but HSPs especially, dread anger, confrontation, tears, anxiety, "scenes," facing change (it always means the loss of something), being asked to change, being judged or shamed by our mistakes, or judging or shaming anyone else.”
“Even without overt sexual abuse, all young women are known to experience a descent into low self-esteem at puberty, probably as they realize their role as sexual objects. The highly sensitive girl will sense all the implications even more and make self-protection a higher priority. Some overeat to become unattractive, some overstudy or overtrain so they have no free time, some pick one boy early and hang on to him for protection.”
“Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor.”
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