Quotes About Care

Tout le monde veut sauver la planète, mais personne ne veut descendre les poubelles

A body is not unlike a pet -- stupid and dirty as it is, one becomes attached to it.

God also set man to be the keeper of creation (Gen 2:15),49 to protect it and keep it safe.

Ángela has been a nurse in this city long enough to know that the pain of the family often eclipses the pain of the patient.

Everything about him changed when he talked about her—his voice, his face, his manner. His love for her was so earnest that he handled even the subject of her with tremendous care. Her name was like a fine glass bauble he was afraid of dropping.

So we're leaving today, Papi. We are already gone. And you must be very careful and look after yourself, please. We are taking you with us in our hearts, and we will call you when we get to el norte, Papi. And we'll send for you when we have jobs, and you can come to us, and you can bring Mami and Abuela, too, and we will all be together again as it is meant to be.

It's unusual in a culture where adult children take care of their aging parents that Lydia's mother even had a savings account.

stack of buckwheat pancakes he set on the nightstand. I reach for the plate instead of the baby. "These are my favorite," I say, stuffing a towering bite into my mouth. "So good." He smiles at me. "Try not to drip food

Parents almost always want what's best for their children. They just don't always know what that is.

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Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.

Solitude is a luxury for the lucky. For people who don't have sick cats and lost ladybugs and very possibly dying loved ones to worry about. For people who don't have to worry about getting their hands dirty with the everyday goo of ordinary suffering.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

When our hearts are in a state of coherence, we more easily experience feelings such as love, care, appreciation, and kindness. On the other hand, feelings such as irritation, anger, hurt, and envy are more likely to occur when the head and heart are out of alignment.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

You have got to change those diapers every day. When it says "six to twelve pounds" on the side of the Pampers box, they're not lying. That is all those things will hold.

The number one question customers are asking about a business is, 'Do they care about me?

Good friends are good for your health. — Dr. Irwin Sarason

Try to make your working relationships much more like a good doctor-patient relationship, and much less like a waiter-diner's.

Pregnant women shouldn't be lifting dead bodies.

I like to think of it as, my parents live with me,

Sometimes, too, other people gave you their light, and could seem to flicker, to be hardly visible at all, if no one took care of them. Because they'd given you too much and had nothing left for themselves.

The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse.

We must love what has been damaged, because everything has been damaged. And to love the damage is to know you care about that world. That you're still alive. That the world is alive.