#caring

If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#helping-others #life

When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#direction #left #life #meaning #person

So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers. ↗

— James Levine

#actually #care #caring #family #fathers

When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards. ↗

— Rasmus Lerdorf

#becomes #caring #i #standard #standards

Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about. ↗

— Leila Sales

#caring #life #people #relationships #business

Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible. ↗

— Ronnie Oldham

#caring #dreaming #excellence #expectations #expecting

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#friendship #harry-dresden #friendship

This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dancing #devil #forgiving #healing #helping

Stop worrying about being that perfect person because no one is perfect. Put your focus on being that right person that will love, understand, and care for that other. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#drama #first-love #friendship #inspirational #life

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to. ↗

— Stephen King

#chris-chambers #friendship #maturity #stephen-king #the-body