Quotes About Care

love people and serve them.

When you don't have debt you don't care about your reputation in economics circles—and somehow it is only when you don't care about your reputation that you tend to have a good one. Just

Whenever possible, replace the doctor with human antifragility. But otherwise don't be shy with aggressive treatments.

Una teoria è come una medicina (o un governo): spesso inutile, a volte necessaria, sempre interessata e occasionalmente letale. Per questo dev'essere usata con attenzione, moderazione e sotto la supervisione di un adulto.

it looks like this is because of overmedication and excessive medical care.

A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation, and close adult supervision.

Mommy, you say quietly, so as not to be overheard. Do you know how, when you love someone and you know they are hurting, it hurts you, too?

Human beings owe a debt of love to one another because there is no other method of paying the debt of love and care which all of us owe to providence.

just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

The question wasn't whether or not I cared about him; the question was, how much? I'm glad Tennyson didn't ask that, because then I'd have to ask myself; and I already knew the answer. I cared far more than was safe.

It's a powerful feeling to know you make others feel safe

Apparently Quinn had woken up a short time ago and immediately asked for ice cream, knowing that kids in hospitals got whatever they wanted.

Scythe Anastasia is not your concern. She's my only concern.

Is it not the job of the gardener to shape the tree as much as possible? And shouldn't branches that begin to reach unreasonably high be the first to be pruned?

For only the pain of empathy will keep us human.

You may look at a beautiful garden and marvel at nature's wonder—yet in such a place, nature is nowhere to be found. On the contrary, a garden is a product of loving cultivation and care. With great effort, it is protected from the heartier weeds that nature would use to undermine and choke its splendor.

I prefer to African wines, to opium, to burgundy, The elixir of your mouth where love parades itself; When my desires leave in caravan for you, Your eyes are the reservoir where my cares drink. — Charles Baudelaire, from "Sed Non Satiata," Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil . Translated by Geoffrey Wagner. (David R. Godine; First edition, second printing edition October 1, 1985) Originally published 1857.

Think of my kind old nurse you once were jealous of . . .

I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

did she love you? only as an extension of herself. what else can love be? the common sense to care very much for something very good. it needn't be related by bloodline. it can be a red beachball or a piece of buttered toast.