Francois Lelord Quotes

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

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

Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

I'm very affected by what I watch and read.

I'm an emotional person.

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.

People forget that everyone has feelings, regardless of their career choice.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

I was a sensitive boy.

I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.

I've always been sensitive and over-emotional.

I have always been a super-emotional dude.

I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.

What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.