Quotes About Caring

It was mind that mattered, mind that cared, mind that loved, the best works of the mind that changed this hard world for the better

The nature of love is about paying attention to the people who matter, about still giving when you are too tired to give. Be a mother who listens, a father who cuddles, a friend who calls back, a helping neighbor, a loving child.

Books were smarter than me and words inspired me. I still think that Diane Ackerman's poem challenged me to build a little house in the first place - to try something new, charge forward without a clear understanding of what would happen next, because: given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Those eyes, Teddy thought. Even frozen in time, they howled. You wanted to climb inside the picture and say, 'No, no, no. It's okay, it's okay. Sssh.' You wanted to hold her until the shakes stopped, tell her that everything would be all right.

We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able to interact. I mean that is part of the reason why solitary confinement is such a horrendous punishment. We depend on the other in order for us to be fully who we are. (...) The concept of Ubuntu says: A person is a person through other persons.

The greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.

I think perhaps the greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help. Not in having no one for whom to care? Fraser paused before answering; he might have been weighing the position of the pieces on the table. That is emptiness, he said at last, softly. But no great burden

These were people like that. The ones that cared so terribly much - enough to risk everything, enough to change and do things. Most people aren't like that, you know. It isn't that they don't care, but they don't care so greatly.

I can bear pain, myself, but I could not bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

I can bear pain, myself," he said softly, "but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

Mm, you're nice to croodle wi', he murmured, doing what I assumed was croodling.

I think perhaps the greatest burden lies in caring for those we cannot help.

These were people like that. The ones who cared so terribly much—enough to risk everything, enough to change and do things. Most people aren't like that, you know. It isn't that they don't care, but that they don't care so greatly.

I drew a deep breath, trying to think of something to say, then pulled a handkerchief from my pocket and gave it to him. Are you breathing, Ian? His mouth twitched a little. Aye, I think so. That's all you have to do, for now.

If I'm not the best aunt in America, then I don't know what's going on.

My dogs are family dogs.

I think I had about 14 dogs in my house at one point.

I'm really domestic.

I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!

I'm the eldest of four - I love my family so much. I'm crazy about them.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

We do all we can to proactively think about employees, how to care about them.

When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.