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• I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Betrayal, Men, Rejection

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Happiness, Selfish, Love Yourself

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• Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

  David Sheff

  Addiction, Alcohol, Drug

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Government, People

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• As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take down anyone who cast a jaundiced eye or who made a comment about either him, his mother, or his sister. He’d told himself that he didn’t need anyone’s love or caring. And so he had learned to live like a feral animal, always ready to strike out when someone tried to touch him.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Children, Eye

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.648, Macmillan

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• Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Two, World, Steps

  Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shankar (Sri Sri) (2005). “Wisdom for the New Millennium”

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• You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loss, Thinking, Numbness

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.99, Random House

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• I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Together, Bricks, Separation

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I always thought love made you stupid. Made you weak. A bad Shadowhunter. 'To love is to destroy.'I believed that[...]I used to think being a good warrior meant not caring,[...] And then I met you. You were a mundane. Weak. Not a fighter. Never trained[...] Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger than anyone I'd ever met. And I realized I was the one who was weak.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stupid, Warrior, Love Is

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• The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Morning, Being In Love, Things In Life

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• Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.

  Jacques Derrida

  Names, Looks, Awakening

  Jacques Derrida (2008). “The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• Thank you for caring for my brother." He took his sunglasses off. And looked at her with total adoration.

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Sunglasses, Adoration

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.363, Penguin

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• It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it, and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me. I hated her for leaving that night, and I hated myself , too, not only because I let her go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn’t have even wanted to leave. She would have just lain with me and talked and cried, and I would have listened and kissed at her tears as they pooled in her eyes.

  John Green

  Eye, Night, Guy

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.127, Penguin

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• I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, People, Stronger

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lawyer, Enough, Dylan

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• He'll be delivered from madness. What then? He'll feel himself acceptable! What then? Do you think feelings like his can be simply re-attached, like plasters? Stuck on to other objects we select? Look at him! ... My desire might be to make this boy an ardent husband - a caring citizen - a worshipper of abstract and unifying God. My achievement, however, is more likely to make a ghost!

  Peter Shaffer

  Husband, Boys, Thinking

  "Equus". Book by Peter Shaffer, 1973.

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• You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Years, White

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.54, Hachette UK

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• The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Play, Safety

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• I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?

  Jennifer Egan

  Real, Experience, Persons

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.44, Anchor

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• To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Emotional, Energy

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• Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Country, Book, Long Walks

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.49, Penguin UK

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• Women who work with animals hear this all the time: that their love for animals must arise out of a sublimated child-rearing urge. Ana's tired of the stereotype. She likes children just fine, but they're not the standard against which all other accomplishments should be measured. Caring for animals is worthwhile in and of itself, a vocation that need offer no apologies.

  Ted Chiang

  Children, Tired, Apology

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• The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.

  Stephen King

  Harder, Packages

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn’t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.

  Karl Marlantes

  Men, Evil, World

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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