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  1. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized, anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
    Quoted in Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, ch. 21 (1948)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/85…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #censure #conscience #criticism #denunciation #disapproval #disparagement #integrity #moralcode #rightandwrong #sensitivity

  2. A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

    Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you’ll be criticized, anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
    Quoted in Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, ch. 21 (1948)

    More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/85…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #censure #conscience #criticism #denunciation #disapproval #disparagement #integrity #moralcode #rightandwrong #sensitivity

  3. How to Share Pregnancy News Sensitively After a Friend's Miscarriage

    📰 Original title: Asking Eric: Couple hesitant to share news after friend’s miscarriage

    🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
    👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

    View full AI summary en.killbait.com/how-to-share-p

    #opinion #pregnancy #miscarriage #sensitivity

  4. piconet.work/mosslight

    If you're on the #autism spectrum, or have a #sensitivity to bright colours and bright lights like I do, you might want to consider using my colour palette, Mosslight. There isn't a 'light' mode, only warm tones designed to limit the overwhelming nature of modern LCD displays and their excessive blue light. With so many people using cheap displays (including me) which are often badly calibrated, it's a quick solution, if you use #Linux that is. #DisabilityPride

  5. A quotation from Hoffer

    Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses

  6. A quotation from Hoffer

    Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 100 (3.14.100) (1951)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11352/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #accusation #error #flaws #guilt #imperfections #projection #selfcontempt #selfcriticism #selfdoubt #selfhatred #selfimage #selfloathing #sensitivity #shame #shortcomings #weaknesses

  7. Politeness impacts #LLM accuracy? 🤔 Who knew #AI could be so sensitive to our tone? Next, they'll suggest we send flowers and chocolates to our algorithms to boost performance! 😂
    arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950 #Politeness #accuracy #sensitivity #tone #humor #HackerNews #ngated

  8. Politeness impacts #LLM accuracy? 🤔 Who knew #AI could be so sensitive to our tone? Next, they'll suggest we send flowers and chocolates to our algorithms to boost performance! 😂
    arxiv.org/abs/2510.04950 #Politeness #accuracy #sensitivity #tone #humor #HackerNews #ngated

  9. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You "Discover how to better understand yourself and create a fuller, richer life" Sale: $16.11 to $1.99 by Elaine N. Aron PhD Rating: 4.5/5 (10,628 Reviews) #SelfHelp #Psychology #Sensitivity #Wellness #Books #Empathy #BookSky

    Amazon.com

  10. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You "Discover how to better understand yourself and create a fuller, richer life" Sale: $16.11 to $1.99 by Elaine N. Aron PhD Rating: 4.5/5 (10,628 Reviews) #SelfHelp #Psychology #Sensitivity #Wellness #Books #Empathy #BookSky

    Amazon.com

  11. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
       All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #beloved #disease #distance #involvement #lovedones #moved #sensitivity #sympathy #visibility #war

  12. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       Almost everybody is deeply affected when some one he loves suffers from cancer. Most people are moved when they see the sufferings of unknown patients in hospitals. Yet when they read that the death-rate from cancer is such-and-such, they are as a rule only moved to momentary personal fear lest they or some one dear to them should acquire the disease. The same is true of war: people think it dreadful when their son or brother is mutilated, but they do not think it a million times as dreadful that a million people should be mutilated. A man who is full of kindliness in all personal dealings may derive his income from incitement to war or from the torture of children in “backward” countries.
       All these familiar phenomena are due to the fact that sympathy is not stirred, in most people, by a merely abstract stimulus. A large proportion of the evils in the modern world would cease if this could be remedied.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #beloved #disease #distance #involvement #lovedones #moved #sensitivity #sympathy #visibility #war

  13. Having gone to a 10 day #Vipassana retreat, I recognize that the #technique gives me the #sensitivity and the tools to work on my #adhd.

    1. I am aware of #anxiety popping up where I would not have noticed it, before.
    2. I can observe my #focus getting twitchy because of my anxiety, trying to find #peace somewhere.
    3. I can prevent it latching onto random thoughts.
    4. I can redirect my focus to #consciousness, #balance and my #body.

    This retrains the #compulsion into a me that I enjoy more ❤️‍🩹

  14. Having gone to a 10 day #Vipassana retreat, I recognize that the #technique gives me the #sensitivity and the tools to work on my #adhd.

    1. I am aware of #anxiety popping up where I would not have noticed it, before.
    2. I can observe my #focus getting twitchy because of my anxiety, trying to find #peace somewhere.
    3. I can prevent it latching onto random thoughts.
    4. I can redirect my focus to #consciousness, #balance and my #body.

    This retrains the #compulsion into a me that I enjoy more ❤️‍🩹

  15. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

       The next stage in the development of a desirable form of sensitiveness is sympathy. There is a purely physical sympathy: a very young child will cry because a brother or sister is crying. This, I suppose, affords the basis for the further developments.
       The two enlargements that are needed are: first, to feel sympathy even when the sufferer is not an object of special affection; secondly, to feel it when the suffering is merely known to be occurring, not sensibly present. The second of these enlargements depends mainly upon intelligence. It may only go so far as sympathy with suffering which is portrayed vividly and touchingly, as in a good novel; it may, on the other hand, go so far as to enable a man to be moved emotionally by statistics. This capacity for abstract sympathy is as rare as it is important.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)

    More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/828…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #abstraction #factsandfigures #loveyourneighbor #sensitivity #statistics #stranger #suffering #sympathy #understanding

  16. The Highly Sensitive Person: Thrive When the World Overwhelms You "20-30% of people have this amazing, innate trait. Maybe you are one of them" Sale: $16.11 to $3.99 by Elaine N. Aron PhD Rating: 4.5/5 (10,616 Reviews) #SelfHelp #Sensitivity #MentalHealth #Relationships #Empathy #BookSky

    The Highly Sensitive Person: T...

  17. The Highly Sensitive Person: Thrive When the World Overwhelms You "20-30% of people have this amazing, innate trait. Maybe you are one of them" Sale: $16.11 to $3.99 by Elaine N. Aron PhD Rating: 4.5/5 (10,616 Reviews) #SelfHelp #Sensitivity #MentalHealth #Relationships #Empathy #BookSky

    The Highly Sensitive Person: T...

  18. A quotation from Orwell

    One of the effects of safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions seem somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 3, New Road (1943-06)

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80417/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #civilization #crassness #disgust #emotion #emotionalism #feelings #passion #safety #sensitivity #declasse