Caring Quotes - Page 24

• There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money - if a gun is held to his head.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Pride, Gun, Government

  "Why I Am a Conservative". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1996.

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• The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Witty, Law, Justice

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.563, Faber & Faber

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• Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

  George MacDonald

  Love, Heart, Saws

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.2406, e-artnow

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• I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

  John Jakes

  Jobs, Believe, Book

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• ...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

  Marcel Proust

  Strong, Mistake, People

  Marcel Proust (2016). “Sodom et Gomorrhe”, p.544, Marcel Proust

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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.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Boys, Use, Littles

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.33, Xist Publishing

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• MUCKY drawing I AM FeeLing completely mucky today too. everyone at school seems so much tougher + pulled together and not so emotionally involved. I get so mad at MYSELF FOR 'caring so deeply' AND 'MAINTAINING' all this stuff in me that FEELS SO PATHectic. I want to put my tHINKing in HYBernation FOR A WHile.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  School, Thinking, Drawing

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• The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

  David Foster Wallace

  Inspirational, Graduation, Freedom

  "David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech" by Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Two, People

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• It was up to him to pay back to the world in beauty and caring what Leslie had loaned him in vision and strength.

  Katherine Paterson

  Vision, World, Pay

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Spiritual, Health

  "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch, Yoga Journal, Issue 11, pp. 18-20, November - December 1976.

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• When the man who feeds the world by toiling in the fields is himself deprived of the basic rights of feeding, sheltering, and caring for his own family, the whole community of man is sick.

  Cesar Chavez

  Men, Rights, Sick

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• Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do.

  Annie Dillard

  Human Nature, Humans

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• But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Home, Heart, Sleep

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.108, Penguin

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• If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't

  Cassandra Clare

  Love, Responsibility, People

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• One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Care, Be Kind

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.77, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ownership, Property Ownership, Property

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with friendship and truly knowing who a person is, knowing his flaws and hopes and strengths and fears, knowing all of it. And admiring and caring for- loving the person because of all of those things... I know that now.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Thinking, Knowing, Looks

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• I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring. ~Shin

  Ai Yazawa

  Thinking, Conflict, Avoiding

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• She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing.

  Janet Fitch

  Karma, Thinking, Might

  Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  News, Clarity, Obvious

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will fuck you up, every time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mother, Father, Attention

  "Snuff". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 20, 2008.

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• All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.

  Steven Moffat

  Heart, Broken, Advantage

  "Fictional character: Mycroft Holmes". "Sherlock", www.imdb.com. (2010 – ).

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• So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.

  David Platt

  Selfish, Social Taboos, Indulge In

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• Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

  Francine Pascal

  Real, Lessons, Care

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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