Caring Quotes - Page 27

• For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication. ...Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers.

  Peter Drucker

  Communication, Community, Humanity

  "The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1993.

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• Not listening is probably the commonest unkindness of married life, and one that creates - more devastatingly than an eternity of forgotten birthdays and misguided Christmas gifts - an atmosphere of not loving and not caring.

  Judith Viorst

  Marriage, Atmosphere, Listening

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• Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.

  Ellen Goodman

  Vocabulary, Rights, Choices

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• What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.

  Melody Beattie

  People, Answers, Easy

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.304, Hazelden Publishing

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• Caring works. Caretaking doesn't. We can learn to walk the line between the two.

  Melody Beattie

  Two, Lines, Caretaking

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.67, Hazelden Publishing

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• Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

  Fanny Fern

  Past, Rights, Numbers

  Fanny Fern (1868*). “Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio ; And, Shadows and Sunbeams”

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• By assigning his political rights to the state the individual also delegates his social responsibilities to it: he asks the state to relieve him of the burden of caring for the poor precisely as he asks for protection against criminals. The difference between pauper and criminal disappears - both stand outside society.

  Hannah Arendt

  Responsibility, Rights, Government

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• Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?

  Eve Ensler

  Believe, Compassionate, Connected

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Beautiful, Dawn, Degenerates

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• It seems that one moment I was this little kid only caring about animals and flowers and stuff, and then the next minute I was this raging stew of hormones. I don't know if you've ever been a raging stew of anything, but I wouldn't particularly recommend it.

  Julie Burchill

  Flower, Kids, Animal

  Julie Burchill (2016). “Sugar Rush”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

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• I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Business, School

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

  Jennifer Hudson

  Respect, Mean, Loving Yourself

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

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• The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

  Kirby Larson

  Life, Heart, Choices

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.162, Yearling

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• The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.

  Rod Serling

  Drawing, Feelings, Narcissistic

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• Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Children, Home, Men

  "Exclusive Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview: Full transcript". "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 17, 2015.

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• We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.

  Kathy Sierra

  Sex, Mean, Doe

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• ... I try ... to use my own voice in a way that shows caring, respect, appreciation, and patience. Your voice, your language, help determine your culture. And part of how a corporate culture is defined is how the people who work for an organization use language.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Appreciation, Organization, Voice

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• Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.

  Anne Truitt

  Children, War, Government

  Anne Truitt (1996). “PROSPECT: The Journal of an Artist”, Scribner

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• Never doubt love ... Never question it when it comes onstage, but be happy for its entrance. And do not weep when it makes its exit, for it leaves behind it the sweet aroma of caring, a fragrance to linger the rest of your life.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Sweet, Doubt, Aroma

  Helen Van Slyke (1988). “Helen Van Slyke, three complete novels”, Random House Value Pub

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• Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life

  Bessel van der Kolk

  Commitment, Dark, Thinking

  "How Trauma Lodges in the Body". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. March 9, 2017.

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• Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.

  Thomas Lickona

  School, Character, Helping

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• I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.

  Bill Vaughan

  Guy, Care, Causes

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• Caring. And reading the Bible, learning about God, Jesus, love. He said, 'Bring on the children', 'Imitate the children', 'Be like the children' and 'Take care of others.' Take care of old people. And we were raised with those values. Those are very important values and my family and I we were raised with those values and they continue strong in us today.

  Michael Jackson

  Strong, Jesus, Children

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• Caring for God's endowment in a thrifty fashion is a form of biblical obedience.

  Ted Malloch

  Fashion, Biblical, Obedience

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.

  Margaret Morse Nice

  Baby, Years, House

  Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn

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