Emma McLaughlin Quotes

I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

To act, you must know pain. You must know what it means to be in love, what it means to be rejected.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Woman is very much more in contact with their feeling than a man. As a matter of fact, woman always teach to men how to love.

There are people with Asperger's whom I've met who certainly would be very upset to learn they'd hurt another person's feelings. They often have very strong moral consciences and moral codes. They care about not hurting people.

I am emotionally strong, passionate, empathetic, and sensitive towards others, especially the people I love.

You act in different ways for your own personal well-being, and you don't think about the people you hurt along the way. wish I would have thought about it.

There's something about the struggle of a sensitive man that we really relate to.

I have never deliberately tried to hurt someone's sentiments.