Caring Quotes - Page 11

• It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

  Kristin Cashore

  Children, Knowing, Argument

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

  John Green

  Doe, Misery, Sometimes

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.14, Penguin

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• "Do you like him much?" "I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults." "Is he?" "All boys are." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Wise, Boys

  "Villette".

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• Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

  Greg Mortenson

  Priorities, Widows, Torah

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.271, Penguin

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• Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

  Audre Lorde

  Compassion, Self, Political

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.130, Courier Dover Publications

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• It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.

  David Foster Wallace

  Years, People, Giving

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• Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Gentleman, Done

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.48

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• The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

  Mitch Albom

  Love Is, Support And Love, People

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• Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!

  Anne Frank

  Baby, Love You, Love Is

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• To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, People, Silence

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• It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Would Be, Odd, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

  Malorie Blackman

  Law, Shows, Fourth

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• ...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

  Terry Goodkind

  Friendship, Care, Want

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.465, RosettaBooks

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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, Men, Giving

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

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• The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

  Moss Hart

  Dream, Cities, Treasure

  moss hart (1959). “act one”

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• If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wall, Thinking, Alive

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.111, Tachyon Publications

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• I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.

  Jonathan Evison

  Life, Hurt, Giving

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• The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Stupidity, Mind

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• Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

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• Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Self Esteem, People, Trying

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• If you believe suicide will bring you peace, or at the very least just an end to everything you hate- you are displaying self-caring behavior. You are still able to actively seek solutions to your problems. You are willing to go to great lengths to provide what you believe will be soothing to yourself. This strikes me as optimistic.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Suicide, Hate, Believe

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• If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

  Dalai Lama

  Opening Up, Focus, Helping

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• Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Commitment, Loss

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t know what to do,” Will said. “Mortmain has taken Tessa, and I believe now I know where she might be. There is a part of me that wants nothing more than to go after her. But I cannot leave Jem. I swore an oath. And what if he wakes in the night and finds I am not here?” He looked as lost as a child. “He will think I left him willingly, not caring that he was dying. He will not know. And yet if he could speak, would he not tell me to go after Tessa? Is that not what he would want?” Will dropped his face into his hands. “I cannot say, and it is tearing me in half.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Believe, Taken

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking time off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they’re probably improving the world more than we acknowledge.

  David Graeber

  Hurt, Family And Friends, World

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