Caring Quotes - Page 9

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  Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Able, Position, Persons

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

  Robert Breault

  Kindness, Names, Mind Your Own Business

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• You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

  Martha Albrand

  World, Care, Worth Living

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• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Mind

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1995). “The Interior Castle”, Harpercollins

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• Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Confidence, Peace

  Thomas (a Kempis) (1850). “The Imitation of Christ: Four Books”, p.67

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• Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

  Marquis de Sade

  Soul, Feelings, May

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

  Francis Bacon

  Kindness, Kids, Mind

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• I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lasts, November, Remember

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2016). “Short Stories”, p.185, Xist Publishing

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• Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.

  Thomas More

  Running, Roots, Challenges

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• Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

  Joel Osteen

  Love, Inspirational, Jesus

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• Love that cares, listens.

  Paul Tillich

  Love, Care

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• The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

  Peter Block

  Self, Community, Challenges

  Peter Block (2009). “Community: The Structure of Belonging”, p.14, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When you are in Joy, you are compassionate. When you are in Joy, you are considerate and caring.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Joy, Compassionate, Considerate

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• Sharing is caring, but I don't care.

  Troye Sivan

  Care, I Don't Care, Don't Care

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• There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Communication

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• I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Tunnels, Wind

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

  Joanne Greenberg

  Feelings, Needs, Pits

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task.

  Martha Stout

  Emotional, Intellectual, Inability

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.126, Harmony

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• But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

  Dean Koontz

  Responsibility, Self, Seductive

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• There are significant relationships, of course, between wanting things and caring about them..The notion of caring is in large part constructed out of the notion of desire. Caring about something may be, in the end, nothing more than a certain complex mode of wanting it. However, simply attributing desire to a person does not in itself convey that the person cares about the object he desires.

  Harry Frankfurt

  Desire, Care, May

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• The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

  David Levithan

  People, Bravery, Hatred

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• I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

  Simone Elkeles

  Heart, Thinking, Choices

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Differences, Making A Difference, Acting

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• Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

  Fred Rogers

  Relationship, Kindness, Giving

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.23, Penguin

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