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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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• It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

  Kristin Cashore

  Children, Knowing, Argument

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly,” which is true. Caring doesn’t sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

  John Green

  Doe, Misery, Sometimes

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.14, Penguin

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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." "More than girls?" "Very likely."

  Charlotte Bronte

  Girl, Wise, Boys

  "Villette".

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• Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

  Greg Mortenson

  Priorities, Widows, Torah

  Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin (2006). “Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time”, p.271, Penguin

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• Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

  Audre Lorde

  Compassion, Self, Political

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.130, Courier Dover Publications

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• It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe.

  David Foster Wallace

  Years, People, Giving

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• Do you want to be a gentleman, to spite her or to gain her over? Because, if it is to spite her, I should think - but you know best - that might be better and more independently done by caring nothing for her words. And if it is to gain her over, I should think - but you know best - she was not worth gaining over.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Gentleman, Done

  Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.48

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