Caring For Others Quotes

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

“Highly sensitive people are too often perceived as weaklings or damaged goods. To feel intensely is not a symptom of weakness, it is the trademark of the truly alive and compassionate. It is not the empath who is broken, it is society that has become dysfunctional and emotionally disabled. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a 'hot mess' or having 'too many issues' are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

“I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop.”
― Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

“I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.”
― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love

“And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for.”
― Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke

“As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.”
― Pythagoras

“It hurts to care about someone more than they care about them-selves. I can tell that story from both sides”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“It was in that moment that I realized something about human beings: We always care. Even when we don't care, or don't want to care, or we've been broken beyond the capability of caring...
We always do. It's our ultimate infallibility.”
― Preston Norton, Neanderthal Opens the Door to the Universe

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“It cost so much, caring. I didn't have any currency to spend on it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“If someone doesn’t care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while.”
― Kem Nunn, Tapping the Source

“Taking care of loved ones in my world was not based on affection. It was based on the fear of losing them.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“In caring for others, we are really caring for ourselves, for we all nurture one another in the garden of the heart.”
― Laurence Overmire

“When Charlotte got home from work, she found a Tupperware container on her patio table. On it, Mac had taped a note that read, Just because.
She opened the container, and the scent of chocolate and butter burst from it like from a Christmas cracker. She gave a startled laugh. Inside were the biggest chocolate chip cookies she'd ever seen, each the size of her whole hand.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Other Birds

“The trouble with good fortune is that we tend to equate it with personal goodness, so that if things are going well with us and less well for others, it’s assumed they must have done something to have brought that misfortune on themselves while we must have worked harder to avoid it. We speak of ourselves as being blessed, but what can that mean except that others are not blessed, and that God has picked out a few of us to love more? It is our responsibility to care for one another, to create fairness in the face of unfairness and find equality where none may have existed in the past.”
― Ann Patchett

“We smile at each other at the same time as we hurt each other. We’re all inadequate, weak & ordinary beings, but because we’re capable of being kind, for a moment, no matter how fleeting, we can be extraordinary.”
― Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

“When I returned a few minutes later, still dripping beneath my towel from my quick shower, I was expecting Nancy to be savoring her last moments between the sheets. or quietly meditating in the living room. Or gazing out the window to catch a last glimpse of normalcy - the people, trees, and birds she might not view again for an eternity. But no, she was doing none of these things.
Nancy was making the bed.”
― Timothy R. Pearson, Night Reflections: A True Story of Friendship, Love, Cancer, and Survival

“For a long time, I have been the one to say ‘checkmate’ until it occurred to me that it could be 'check on your mate'.”
― DON SANTO

“The one thing we can all afford to give away,
kindness.”
― Nanette L. Avery

“[Long Life]
This famous writer has died at 92
And that legend journalist,
The darling of authorities and mainstream media,
Has died at 95.
This pious religious man
Has died at 96,
And that billionaire,
Known for his countless charities and charitable deeds
Has died at 96 also…
The veteran and shrewd politician,
The former president of that country,
Has died at 95 as well…
And the same questions that dawned on me
Ever since I understood the oppression & filthiness
Of what the elites, authorities, and those in power are capable of,
Begin ringing in my ears once again:
Can anyone aware of the ugliness of what is going on live a long life?
Is it a coincidence that most people, writers, and artists
Who enriched my awareness and world died prematurely
Or died, literally or metaphorically, by suicide, assassination, or in prison?
Can a shred of awareness fell upon us without defeating the body and the soul
Cell by cell and one organ after another causing a premature death?
I also wonder have the writers, journalists, religious men, and politicians
Who lived long lives enriched truth and justness,
Or have they gotten rich at the expense of the above
to live long lives up to 92, 93, 94, 95, & 96?
And by biggest questions of all:
Is there somewhere, in some world, in some place,
a dagger of awareness that stabs without the killing the stabbed prematurely?

[Original poem published in Arabic on December 31, 2022, at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“The "Village" should always have the child's best interest at heart. Otherwise, it's not a village.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“The Dark Cloud
Is the unfair treatment of survivors that society labels as mad
Is the dare that you took which turned out really bad
Is the pair of trousers that your friend was told they had to throw away
Is the caring nature you have and how you get bulldozed over because a lot of people want things done their way”
― Aida Mandic, The Dark Cloud

“I'd be a monster not to care whether another person is hurt.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“The joy of such a purpose is that it gives you a reason to ignore everything else. There is nothing so effective in taking one's mind off the practical concerns of our lives as a living creature that needs immediate care, without which it will die, if we are so inclined to try and save it. And I was.”
― Frieda Hughes, George: A Magpie Memoir

“Often...

Those who wear themselves thin to meet everyone's needs can end up feeling the most alone.. just like a lighthouse that tirelessly guides
others to shore, yet remains isolated in the darkness.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“I'm particularly grateful for those neighbors and friends who listened to me without probing for details, judging the situation, or giving too much advice about what they would do in a similar circumstance. I simply wasn't yet ready for anything beyond just trying to cope with each new day.”
― Dianne G. Allen