Caring Enough Quotes

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Believe, Dark, Names

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• Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.

  Marilyn

  Thinking, Imperfection, Genius

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• Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life.

  Keri Russell

  Believe, Caring, Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you to be a fruit tree or a shade tree. I want you to be a currant bush, and some day, little currant bush, when you are laden with fruit, you are going to say, ‘Thank you, Mr. Gardener, for loving me enough to cut me down, for caring enough about me to hurt me. Thank you, Mr. Gardener.’

  Hugh B. Brown

  Hurt, Cutting, Caring

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• Before Kiki and I headed toward the Keep, I thanked my friends. “For what? We didn’t do anything,” Janco grumbled. “For caring enough to follow my guards. And the next time, I might need the help.” “There better not be a next time,” Ari said, giving me a stern look. “How touching,” Janco said, pretending to wipe his eyes. “Get going, Yelena. I don’t want you to see me cry.” He faked a sniffle. “I’m sure your ego can handle it,” I said. “Or will you need to beat up some trainees to feel like a man again?” “Very funny,” he said.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Eye, Caring, Men

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Magic Study”, p.221, Harlequin

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• Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.

  Jonathan Ive

  Caring, Goal, Trying

  The Globe and Mail, January 2007.

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• Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Caring, Lawyer, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Thinking, People

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Passion, Caring

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• Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Respect, Mean, Caring

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.93, Penguin

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• If I can get out of the way, if I can be pure enough, if I can be selfless enough, and if I can be generous and loving and caring enough to abandon what I have in my own preconceived silly notions of what I think I am - and become truly who in fact I am, which is really just another child of God - then the music can really use me. And therein lies my fulfillment. That's when the music starts to happen.

  John McLaughlin

  Children, Lying, Silly

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• Good discipline is more than just punishing or laying down the law. It is liking children and letting them see that they are liked. It is caring enough about them to provide good, clear rules for their protection.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Children, Caring, Law

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