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Quotes About Care

When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess, or perversion of mind lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Be always busy.
~ Samuel Johnson
It may be that most men do not care how they look, so long as they do not look ridiculous, and their conception of looking ridiculous is that they should look different from anybody else... In regard to shaving, the view of the conventionalist is that it does not much matter whether we shave or grow beards provided we all shave or grow beards at the same time, and ninety-nine men out of a hundred are conventionalists.
~ Robert Lynd, "Beaver," 1922
Homemade meals — especially mommy meals — are life's most pleasant fuel.
~ Terri Guillemets
Angels in disguise are flitting about everywhere, but hospice workers are the pure light of angels unmasked.
~ Terri Guillemets, "Jane," 2007
Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.
~ Charles Dickens
Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.
~ Author Unknown
You know you're a grown-up when your houseplants are alive and you can't smoke any of them.
~ Author Unknown
Faith is not without worry or care, But Faith is Fear that has said a prayer.
~ Thelma Ireland, "Faith," 1943
Practice fire safety — watch what you heat.
~ Author Unknown
Grandmother — a wonderful mother with lots of practice.
~ Author Unknown
A grandma's heart is a patchwork of love.
~ Author Unknown
Man should have an intuition of this far-reaching cosmic purpose and then, if he takes care to see that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things, the difficulties of earthly existence will not destroy his peace of mind.
~ Epictetus
...as healing as a mommy kiss...
~ Terri Guillemets
A body well cared for glows in happy health.
~ Terri Guillemets
Don't feed your heart anxiety — it's only hungry for love.
~ Terri Guillemets
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
~ Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!
~ Rea Cord
Here's to Hope! — the child of Care, And pretty sister of Despair, Here's hoping that Hope's children shan't Take after their Grandma or Aunt!
~ Oliver Herford, c.1903
I felt myself like a foolish bird, a bird born in a cage without power to attain freedom... I walked along the fields, by the neat iron railing with which they were enclosed. All about me was visible the care of man. Nature herself seemed under the power of the formal influence, and flourished with rigidity and decorum. Nothing was left wild. The trees were lopped into proper shape, cut down here where their presence seemed inelegant and planted there to complete the symmetry of a group.
~ W. Somerset Maugham, 1900
It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to care.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Ci sono persone che si sentono in imbarazzo di fronte al dolore altrui e temono di dire la cosa sbagliata; a costoro dico che non si sbaglia nell'offrire conforto, mai. Una parola gentile, un abbraccio consolatorio... queste cose sono sempre bene accette.
~ Jacqueline Carey
He had never been one to care about appearances or heroics or receiving accolades for his deeds. I daresay keeping Phèdre in one piece had kept him too busy; and then later, protecting me, too.
~ Jacqueline Carey
Poor licklewickle cry-baby buggy-wuggy,' she muttered.
~ Jacqueline Wilson
he's only got to look at me to see he comes first. First and last and all the stages in between. I
~ Jacqueline Wilson