171 Care Quotes

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.

In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

Oh won't you stay Stay a while with your own ones Don't ever stray Stray so far from your own ones 'Cause the world is so cold Don't care nothing for your soul That you share with your own ones.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

We know enough of our own history by now to be aware that people exploit what they have merely concluded to be of value, but they defend what they love. To defend what we love we need a particularizing language, for we love what we particularly know.

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

Drink, pretty creature, drink!

Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing.

The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is an enlargement of the sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Loving-if the answering breast Seem not to be thus possessed, Still in hoping have a care; If it do, beware, beware! But if in yourself you find it, Above all things-mind it, mind it!

The best doctor is the one you run for and can't find.

One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable. (11 September 1941)

I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.

Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come, and trip it, as you go. On the light fantastic toe.

My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them and teach them to read. At the International Atomic Energy Agency, my colleagues and I work to keep nuclear materials out of the reach of extremist groups. We inspect nuclear facilities all over the world, to be sure that peaceful nuclear activities are not being used as a cloak for weapons programmes. My sister-in-law and I are working towards the same goal, through different paths: the security of the human family.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.

Will the love I have for you be enough....? To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance watching you, the beauty of you, your energy as you look up at these [people], speaking to them as an equal even though every movement of your hands, every fluttering syllable of your speech cries out that you're a child - is it enough for you that I feel these loves for you? Because it's enough for me. And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my name.

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.

Is there so much hate for the ones we love? Tell me, we both matter, don't we? You, it's you and me. It's you and me won't be unhappy.

If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody.

Have I told you lately that I love you? Have I told you there's no one above you? Fill my heart with gladness, Take away my sadness, Ease my troubles, that's what you do.

Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul? Is it fine your way

Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain: all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep

And the angel's body was bared, and he was clothed in light so that eye could not look on him; and his voice grew louder, as though it came not from him but from heaven above. And the angel said: I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves, but by love. It was not given to the mother to know what her children needed for their life. Nor was it given to the rich man to know what he himself needed. Nor is it given to any man to know whether, when evening comes, he will need boots for his body or slippers for his corpse. I remained alive when I was a man, not by care of myself, but because love was present in a passer-by, and because he and his wife pitied and loved me. The orphans remained alive, not because of their mother's care, but because there was love in the heart of a woman a stranger to them, who pitied and loved them. And all men live not by the thought they spend on their own welfare, but because love exists in man. I knew before that God gave life to men and desires that they should live; now I understood more than that. I understood that God does not wish men to live apart, and therefore he does not reveal to them what each one needs for himself; but he wishes them to live united, and therefore reveals to each of them what is necessary for all. I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Heal the world, make it a better place, for you and for me. There are people dying...If you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me. ~Heal The World

I love little pussy, her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.

Bodhicitta is the medicine which revives and gives life to every sentient being who even hears of it. When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself. ~ Ch. 10

When your mother has grown older, When her dear, faithful eyes No longer see life as they once did, When her feet, grown tired, No longer want to carry her as she walks, Then lend her your arm in support, escort her with happy pleasure- the hour will come when, weeping, you must accompany her on her final walk. And if she asks you something, then give her an answer. And if she asks again, then speak! And if she asks yet again, respond to her, not impatiently, but with gentle calm. And if she cannot understand you properly, explain all to her happily. The hour will come, the bitter hour, when her mouth asks for nothing more.

Certainly one thing that I've learned is that it is important to pick a problem based on how much you care about it.

I love little pussy, her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.

Looking at this immensely swollen face in front of him the doctor gently consoled the patient, 'Comrade, don't worry and you will recover.' As a matter of fact, he was thinking quite the opposite, 'You will die. I can be of no more help.'

When alone he secretly shook his head. But suddenly he recalled the analysis made by the Party secretary regarding 'two kinds of social system, two attitudes, and therefore two different results.' He felt as if he had seen a ray of light in the darkness. He said to himself, 'Lao Chiu can endure pain of such magnitude, and in spite of his burns he is always thinking of going back to the furnace. He wants to live. Why should he not be able to live?' That moment, suddenly the doctor and the patient were drawn closely together. From then on, the doctor thought of the patient often and also tried to compare himself with Lao Chiu. The more he compared the more he felt ashamed of himself and the more eager he was to do his best for this worker. So, from the very first day the assistant surgeon learned something from his patient.

The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.

The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.

You nodded off in my arms watching tv I won't move you an inch Even though my arm's asleep.

We're learning to live with somebody's depression And I don't want to live with somebody's depression.

He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing - but he did have a talent for baking: The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.

Careful! We don't want anybody getting squished.

Poor little thing! She's gasping for love like a carp on a kitchen table gasping for water.

Small Mabel whimpered all night long, For calling herself the cause. Her oak-eyed mother did no thing But change the bloody gauze.

Something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?

Narrated Abu Qatadah: 'The Messenger of Allah came towards us while carrying Umamah the daughter of Abi Al-`As (Prophet's granddaughter) over his shoulder. He prayed, and when he wanted to bow, he put her down, and when he stood up he lifted her up.'

You've made my life so glamorous, You can't blame me for feeling amorous. 'S wonderful, 's marvellous That you should care for me.

Probably he really became rather useful, though no one ever told him so. But that, of course, cannot have been the reason why they kept the poor little man so long. They may have been waiting for him to get better, and judging 'better' by some odd medical standard of their own.

Caringosity killed the Kerouac cat.

This is a medical service. It always was.

'And I will be your Guiding Light if you'll be my General Hospital.'

(On leaving money to found a psychiatric hospital in Dublin) No nation needs it so much.

I say good night-night I tuck him in tight. But things are not right. What is this? An infant kiss That sends my body tingling?

Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired. I bring you love and deeper understanding. Hello, I know that you're unhappy. I bring you love and deeper understanding....

'What worries me, Billy,' she said - I could hear the change in her voice - 'is how your mother is going to take this.'

The essence of love is getting out of oneself and into others. When we care less about our feelings, our rights, our happiness, our security, etc., and begin to concern ourselves with the feelings, rights, happiness, and security of others, we will have found the true power of love.

When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.

'You better see a doctor.' -- Replying to a fan who said 'Neil Young makes the pain go away' at United Palace Theatre in New York City, December 18, 2007.

If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.

Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.

From the haunts of daily life Where is waged the daily strife With common wants and common cares Which sows the human heart with tares.

And you think you know that they'll always be there. You never had the time. I want you to be fine. ~ 'Burrito'

In the words of Marcel Proust - and this applies to any woman in the world - if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is that they're coming out with, til ten minutes past four in the morning... you're in.

L'amour est, comme la medecine, seulement l'art d'aider a la nature.

Nunc suscipe, terra, fovendum, gremioque hunc concipe molli. Hominis tibi membra sequestro, generosa et fragmina credo.

A lot of people don't get to tell me. They always say I know you're going to do what you want to do, but I'm telling you what my concerns are.

There's nought but care on ev'ry han', In every hour that passes, O: What signifies the life o' man, An' then she made the lasses, O.

When there were periods of crisis, you stood beside him. When there were periods of happiness, you laughed with him. And when there were periods of sorrow, you comforted him.