Caring Quotes - Page 25

• But witchy magic doesn’t listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didn’t really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.

  Franny Billingsley

  Magic, Monsters, Care

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.59, A&C Black

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• And you stupid, stupid woman, stupid for caring, stupid for thinking that he cared.

  David Nicholls

  Stupid, Thinking

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• I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loss, Past, Men

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Fun, Emotional, People

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• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sleep, Men, Two

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• It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

  Idries Shah

  Knowing, Who Cares, Matter

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.44, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

  David Levithan

  Kindness, Believe, Thinking

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• Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Giving Up, Book, Reading

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• And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn’t bear it. I honestly thought I couldn’t bear it.

  Jojo Moyes

  Grief, Heart, Body

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• I'm the one not caring. I'm the one pretending the Earth isn't shattering all around me because I don't want it to be. I don't want to know there was an earthquake in Missouri. I don't want to know the Midwest can die, also, that what's going on isn't just tides and tsunamis. I don't want to have any more to be afraid of. I didn't start this diary for it to be a record of death.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Earthquakes, Diaries, Midwest

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again—not after they’d been apart for so many months.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Sight, Two

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• How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

  Ami McKay

  Mother, Children, Miracle

  Ami Mckay (2006). “The Birth House: A Novel”, William Morrow

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• 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.

  F. Sionil José

  Memories, Animal, Men

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• Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Pain, Loneliness

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• I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

  Maureen Johnson

  Beautiful, Two, Knowing

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.16, Penguin

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• Caring too much could be dangerous; I saw that now. But the alternative was no better.

  Ann Aguirre

  Alternatives, Too Much, Saws

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

  Marcel Proust

  World, Care, Life Is

  Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.90, Jester House Publishing

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• Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second. Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Essence, Confusion

  Virginia Woolf, Andrew McNeillie (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928”, Chatto & Windus

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• Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Thinking, Feelings, Sitting

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.209, Penguin

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• The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Education, Peace, Passion

  Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women in Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

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• I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Feelings, Used, Starting

  J. A. Redmerski, J. Lynn, Jay Crownover (2013). “The Edge of Never, Wait For You, Rule: Scorching Summer Reads 3 Books in 1”, p.42, HarperCollins UK

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• But what are loyalty and caring really worth?" "To me? Everything.

  Richelle Mead

  Loyalty

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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, People

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• Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

  Melody Beattie

  Giving, Focus, World

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

  Dalai Lama

  Lasting Happiness, Understanding, Heartfelt

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