Quotes About Care

Maybe being loved wasn't enough; maybe there was something else you needed not to get in trouble.

It was important, his father said, to craft the backs of cabinets and fences properly, even though they were hidden. "He loved doing things right. He even cared about the look of the parts you couldn't see.

I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was really important was the care that was put into it.

Según su padre, era importante darles un buen acabado a las partes traseras de los armarios y las vallas, aunque fueran a quedar ocultas. «Le encantaba hacer bien las cosas. Se preocupaba incluso por las partes que no se podían ver».

THE EMERGENCY ROOM at any hospital in the middle of the night is mainly made up of the consequences of love.

Daddy!" she cried. "Are you okay?" There are ten thousand perfectly good reasons not to have children but hearing the love in Feather's voice trumped every one.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

Be a caretaker, not an owner.

Nurturing things without possessing them

The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.

the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue. But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time.

Our present idea of freedom is only the freedom to do as we please: to sell ourselves for a high salary, a home in the suburbs, and idle weekends. But that is a freedom dependent upon affluence, which is in turn dependent upon the rapid consumption of exhaustible supplies. The other kind of freedom is the freedom to take care of ourselves and of each other. The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree.

the story of a father's love for his children, and the love they gave in return.

The most basic parental bond is maternal. Equal parenting is great--it has forced men to get off their duffs--but women, from breast to cradle to cuddle, can nurture in ways that men cannot.

The mother or other parent figure(s) must attend the infant and child so that at least its safety, security and touching are met.

This is an amazing thing about infants. They can sense that mother is needy, and can eventually detect her specific needs and begin providing them for her. Of course, this carries a major price—the denial, stifling and stunting of the infant's own True Self or Child Within.

"Safety First" is "Safety Always."

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

Charlie Brown got hit with a line-drive!" "Does anyone here know anything about first-aid?" "It's probably not serious... Second or third-aid will do.

Travel tips: How to avoid carsickness, seasickness and airsickness... Be careful what you eat. And stay home.

Don't sit there watching TV without your glasses! Do you want to ruin your eyes?!" "My opthalmologist says that not wearing glasses cannot hurt the eyes even if those glasses are badly needed for adequate vision." "What does your opthalmologist think of the foreign situation?