Caring Quotes

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child.He needs guidance.If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys and Nasty Girls of God realization, the men and women who are in your face, disturbing you terrifying you, until you radically awaken to who and what you really are.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we'd known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy!

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

All things need watching, working at, caring for, and marriage is no exception. Marriage is not something to be indifferently treated or abused, or something that simply takes care of itself. Nothing neglected will remain as it was or is, or will fail to deteriorate. All things need attention, care and concern, and esp...ecially so in this most sensitive of all relationships of life.

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

I'm doing what I want to do, and I don't care what you think you need!

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

I'm not suspicious, I'm just careful.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

It's in the preparation — in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.