Jen Lancaster Quotes

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

I can hear my brother's voice in my head. Your problem is that you're too emotional. But how can I not be emotional, Rowan? How can I not care?

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

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

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with. I am very emotional. Sometimes to the point of where I just want to hide away, because I can't get a handle on myself.

Reynie's fce fell. 'It's not funny, Kate.' For a moment - a fleeting moment - Kate looked desperately sad. 'Well, of course it's not funny, Reynie Muldoon. But what do you want me to do? Cry?

The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings.

Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.

The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer.

A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.

We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.