Caring Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.

  Mitch Albom

  Love Is, Support And Love, People

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• A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

  George Washington Carver

  Science, Self, Years

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• Empathy - that is, caring about people and acting responsibly on that care, not just for yourself, but for others - this is something that Barack Obama understands very well. He was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago for ten years. As an expert on the Constitution and on our family values, he understands very well that the country is fundamentally about caring for one another. The day after his speech, he was interviewed on CNN, and Anderson Cooper asked him what patriotism was. He said patriotism begins with caring for one another.

  George Lakoff

  Country, People, Empathy

  Source: truth-out.org

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• One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Respect, Communication, Thinking

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• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

  Charles Dickens

  Change, Men, Rocks

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ... With a Frontispiece, from a Drawing by F. Stone”, p.180

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• Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Christmas, Struggle, Ties

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• Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Self Esteem, Love You, Loving Yourself

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• Love is more than a noun-it is a verb; it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Love, Inspirational, Sacrifice

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• Stop what you are doing long enough to enjoy the sunset, listen to a special song that lifts you up, or pick up the phone and share some special thought with a caring friend.

  Barbara Johnson

  Song, Sunset, Phones

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• SMILE! In every language, in every culture - it is the light in your window that tells people there's a caring, sharing individual inside and it's the universal code for "I'm O. K. - You're O. K., too!"

  Denis Waitley

  Smile, Light, People

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• When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Inspiring, Confidence, Spiritual

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• We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning becomes more widespread, many people will feel it easier to publicly acknowledge their own spiritual and ethical aspirations and will allow themselves to give more space to their highest vision in their personal interactions with others. A politics of meaning is as much about these millions of small acts as it is about any larger change. The two necessarily go hand in hand.

  Michael Lerner

  God, Spiritual, Hands

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• At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

  Phil McGraw

  Fun, Smart, Self Esteem

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another.

  Erma Bombeck

  4th Of July, Compassion, Volunteer

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• Character is made up of core moral principles called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness and citizenship. Each of these virtues are independently important but together they provide the foundation for a worthy life.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Responsibility, Important

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• We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

  Robert G. Allen

  Struggle, Growth, Overcoming

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• Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

  William Saroyan

  Baseball, Art, Player

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• The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life: In himself, nothing; In God, everything. He knows well that the world will never see him as God sees him and he has stopped caring.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humility, Men, Inferiority

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• Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

  John Stuart Mill

  Happiness, Art, Mean

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.3190, e-artnow

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• There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions.

  Daniel Dennett

  Honesty, Integrity, Philosophy

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

  Patricia Churchland

  Meaningful, Atheist, Anchors

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