Caring Quotes - Page 23

• Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

  Martha Beck

  Hope, Lonely, Believe

  "Secret to finding unexpected miracles" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2010.

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• I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.

  Kristen Bell

  Stars, War, Character

  "A Conversation with Kristen Bell". Interview with Celeste Perron, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 8, 2008.

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naïve hope.

  Elayne Boosler

  Wall, Moving, Desire

  "Occupy Wall Street — and What Charles Schwab Owes Kittens and Puppies" by By Elayne Boosler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

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• I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

  William J. Clinton

  Morning, Littles, Too Much

  William J. Clinton (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1565, Government Printing Office

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• I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

  Lauren Conrad

  Beach, Environment, Clean

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• In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

  Rene Descartes

  Learning, Order, Political

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• It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

  Wayne Dyer

  Happiness, Stress, Worry

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• For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

  George Eliot

  Love, Heart, Joy

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.690, 谷月社

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Powerful, Law Of Attraction

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• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  Harrison Ford

  Thinking, Action, Fantasy

  "Harrison Ford criticises 'soulless' action films". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 31, 2011.

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• Lost time is never found again.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Positive, Time

  Benjamin Franklin (1821). “Essays and Letters”, p.80

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• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Time, Short Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

  Ernest Gaines

  Motivational, Respect, Integrity

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• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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• Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

  Dick Gephardt

  Heart, Men, Good Man

  Sen. Richard (Dick) Gephardt's speech at the Democratic National Convention, abcnews.go.com. August 16, 2000.

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• Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Alzheimer's, People, Giving

  "Leeza Gibbons: Star in the World of Alzheimer’s Caregiving" by Marie Marley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2016.

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• As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Strength, Meaningful, Heart

  Letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, on May 30, 1877. "Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh" by Irving Stone and Jean Stone, p. 26, 1995.

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• Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

  Jennifer Granholm

  American Veterans, Issues, Happy Veterans Day

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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• I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it’s each baby for herself.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Baby, Children, Pro Life

  "Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.

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• One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.

  Alexandra Ripley

  World, Littles, Injustice

  Alexandra Ripley (2011). “Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind”, p.471, Hachette UK

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• Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: Why did other people stop?

  William Stafford

  Real, People, Way

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• You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell. Me, I was part of the nastiness now. Far more a part of it than Rusty Regan was.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sleep, Oil And Water, Air

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.230, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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