Quotes About Caring

As he left, I peered at Sarah Mapps and her mother, the way they grabbed hands and squeezed in relief, and then at Nina, at the small exultation on her face. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinions of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning the Fates had been. Nina was one wing, I was the other.

it came to me that I'd spoken of love, but he had not. He'd spoken of caring, of need-his, the children's, Green Hill's. Wouldn't I, wouldn't we be enough for you? he said. You would be a wonderful wife and the best of mothers. We would see to it that you never missed your ambition. It was his way of telling me. I could not have him and myself both.

It seemed like an original act, the very kindest act of being human, that he listened.

The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

In real love4 you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

It seemed most of the town rallied around her, and the attention and caring seemed to boost Nina's spirits. It gave Sonnet hope, too. There was something powerful in the energy that came from friends and neighbors and family.

Still, he's Emory. He doesn't have to walk her home, especially considering how snitty she was to him. He didn't have to come in and stop her cruelty to Fay, or watch over her as he has evidently been continuing to do, drawing those pictures on the Reeses' sidewalk. She knew the pictures were for her and her children. She and Emory did not always spell things out, but she knew, when he drew pictures, what they meant.

If you even try to die, I'll kill you myself," Tucker had said in a choky voice

There is nothing more unloving than to be silent in the face of lies that will ruin another person.

The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

A life worth living is one of compassion. And a life of compassion will include many tears.

life worth living is one of compassion. And a life of compassion will include many tears.

There is no beautifier like sympathy

When she wasn't being stiff-necked, she was the friend he most wanted to talk to, who he couldn't wait to see each day. She came into his mind with the first ray of consciousness at daybreak. He nodded off, smiling over her with his last, heavy-eyed blink before sleep. Sweet Win. Funny Win. Clever Win. Frightened, brave, careful, meticulous Winnie, trying to avoid the bite of the world by pretending it didn't have teeth.

She didn't want to change the world. She just wanted to make it lovely and wonderful for the people she loved.

Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases. Government that's not particularly caring and is hands-off is not particularly inspiring.

The maternal instinct is in me.

In our house caring about food is pretty instinctive.

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

What about compassion? 

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.