To be caring is to show kindness and concern
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Caring gives life great significance
- The power of being human is to care! Alexandra Jicol
- I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. Pau Casals
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Caring makes us more fully alive
- People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships–even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armour of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move. Arthur Gordon
- Being fully alive
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Caring can have a powerful impact on people’s lives
- Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia
- We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important is that you do care and you act. Charlotte Lunsford
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Caring can even change the world
- Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have. Margaret Mead
- Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Seuss
- Making a difference
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Caring is a kind of freedom even if it means sacrifice at times
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. David Foster Wallace
- Freedom
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Here are yet more rewards of caring
- The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. Carson McCullers
- There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. John Holmes
- Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. Harold Kushner
- From caring comes courage. Lao Tzu
- Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. The Dalai Lama
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Love is the key to caring
- The right mixture of caring and not caring–I suppose that’s what love is. James Hilton
- If you love life, you will care for life. If you love yourself, you will care for yourself. If you love your family, you will care for your family. If you love humanity, you will care for humanity. If you love the world, you will care for the world. If you love God, you will care for God. So, everywhere you look, you will find love as the key to caring. And life without caring is tantamount to death. The reverse is equally true: If you do not love life, you will not care for life. If you do not love yourself, you will not care of yourself. Robert Muller
- Love
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Caring listens
- A caring heart that listens is often more valued than an intelligent mind that talks.
- One who cares is one who listens. Richard Clarke
- Listening
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Caring performs kind acts
- Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love …. kindness is goodwill, kindness says “I want you to be happy.” Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God. Randolph Ray
- Kindness
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Caring helps others to grow in their own way
- In caring I experience the other as having potentialities and the need to grow. In helping the other grow, I do not impose my own direction; rather, I allow the direction of the other’s growth to guide what I do, to help determine how I am to respond. Milton Mayerhoff
- Growth
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Caring is what real friendship is all about
- Good friends have a way of bringing out the best in you, by their caring and the interest that they take in all you do. Emily Matthews
- Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born. Donna A. Favors
- Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. William Glasser
- You’ll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don’t understand. You don’t have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place. Terry Goodkind
- Friendship
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Caring with the heart is no less important than knowledge of the mind
- Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. Benjamin Franklin
- If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: “And what is as important as knowledge?” asked the mind. “Caring,” answered the heart. Flavia Weedn
- The heart, The mind
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Make time for the people you care about
- Nobody is so busy that they can’t make time for the people they really care about. Leila Sales
- Never be so busy as not to think of others. Mother Teresa
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Bring care into children’s lives
- Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that’s not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbour. Often times it is a teacher. Joe Manchin
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Take care of yourself too
- There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself. Brian Andreas
- The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. Carson McCullers
- Self-love
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There is a great need in society for more caring
- Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society. Mary Catherine Bateson
- Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. Anthony D’Angelo
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