Quotes About Caring

compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

I'm going to address you bluntly, but it's a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgment of you.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

losers, even if they do not have a brain,have a heart.

A good neighbor will babysit. A great neighbor will babysit twins.

When sleep forsook my open eye, Who was it sung sweet lullaby, And rock'd me that I should not cry? My Mother.

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer.

There should be no tear on your cheek, dear, had my hand the access to brush it away.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

True friends, love you unconditionally, have no ulterior motives, want what is best for you, are honest with you. True friends don't always tell you what you want to hear. True friends tell you what you need to hear. True friends are a blessing.

What is the goal of parenting? It's to help a child grow up to be a decent human being, a mensch, a person with compassion, commitment, and caring.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

The most striking feature of the psychopathic personality is his utter lack of empathy. He is incapable of love, incapable of caring, incapable of feeling sorry for anyone but himself. Other people are simply objects to be exploited and manipulated for his own profit and pleasure.

There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.

Birth control doesn't mean no children. It just means that people have a choice how they want to live. Like rutting, unthinking, breeding animals—or like reasoning creatures. Will a married couple have one, two or three children—whatever number will keep the world population steady and provide a full life of opportunity for everyone? Or will they have four, five or six, unthinking and uncaring, and raise them in hunger and cold and misery? Like that world out there

I have witnessed this phenomenon of two-way healing so many times in my work with couples that I can now say with confidence that most husbands and wives have identical needs, but what is openly acknowledged in one is denied in the other. When the partners with the denied need are able to overcome their resistance and satisfy the other partners' overt need, a part of the unconscious mind interprets the caring behavior as self-directed. Love of the self is achieved through love of the other.

A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

no, i don't, i told him. i'm not sure that it matters what you care about. maybe it's the caring itself that matters.

A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.

Perhaps we know that one day we will have to release what we are tired of feeding and caring for, when the song of the trees is all we can hope to hear.