Quotes About Care

You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' 

For years, she had been in mourning for the way she had let her life slip through her fingers. Given another chance, she'd told herself, she would take more care to experience it. But lately, she was finding that she had experienced it after all and just forgotten, and now it was returning to her.

You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember that it's your child—whichever one is unhappy.

He's fully aware that old age will be coming for him too, in time. Health troubles, insurance issues, all with no hope of a pension. Even now, in his forties, he has started to feel slightly less trustful of his own body. He takes more care about how he lifts things, and he gets winded sooner on his runs. A long-ago basketball injury tends to set up a kind of echo in his left ankle during sudden changes in the weather.

serious. She'd been frantic. Over his crib she had

Walking a small child was like herding water, Michael used to think when his own children were small. Heaven only knew what they'd take into their heads to do next - dart in front of a speeding car or throw a tantrum in mid-traffic or stop to pick a soaked cigar butt out of the gutter.

Be careful with the world , or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.

When you throw trash on the ground, you apparently don't see yourself as truly belonging to the world that you're walking around in.

He'd been generous, yes, but lots of people are generous; what made him different was the fact that he'd taken responsibility for me.

The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear. Joanna's

The human concern for others would seem to be the one story that, adequately told, no person can fully bear to hear.

You don't deserve [love] if you won't take care of it.

We didn't raise our daughter, we merely loved her.

Service to the change they seek to make. Willing to tell a story that resonates with a group that they care enough to serve. There could be an overlap. It's possible that it's the way you feel right this minute, but it might not be. The version of you on offer might run many layers deep, but it can't possibly be all of you, all the time.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

Find a position on the map where you, and you alone, are the perfect answer. Overwhelm this group's wants and dreams and desires with your care, your attention, and your focus. Make change happen. Change that's so profound

Work that matters for people who care is the shortest, most direct route to making a difference.

The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.

Come here. She shrank back. I'm alright. No you're not. You look like an extra out of a splatter film. He jerked her toward him and started to swipe at her face with the rag. Huh. It actually felt kind of good to be groomed like a kitten.

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

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A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.

You have to treat your car with love. And I don't mean love of an object. You see, that's just wrong. That's materialism. You have to love your car like it's sentient being, like it can love you back. Now, that's some deep-down agape love.