47 Quotes About Caring For Loved Ones

One of the most important parts of caring for a loved one is understanding what it is like to be loved and show love to others. Here are some great quotes about caring for loved ones that are encouraging to hear.

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.”

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”

“A person who cares about the earth will resonate with its purity.”

“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.”

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”

“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.”

“Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.”

“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.”

“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.”

“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.”

“Caring is a powerful business advantage.”

“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 neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.”

“From caring comes courage.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born.”

“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”

“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”

“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”

“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

“Nurturing is not complex. It’s simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.”

“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”

“One must care about a world one will never see.”

“One person caring about another represents life’s greatest value.”

“People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don’t consider it servitude.”

“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”

“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”

“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”

“The right mixture of caring and not caring – I suppose that’s what love is.”

“The simple act of caring is heroic.”

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.”

“Today, give yourself permission to be outrageously kind, irrationally warm, improbably generous. I promise it will be a blast.”

“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.”

“Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.”

“We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.”

“We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important is that you do care and you act.”

“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”

“When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.”

“When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.”

“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.”

“You don’t have a garden just for yourself. You have it to share.”

“You really can change the world if you care enough.”

There are various ways to be properly compensated for the time and energy it takes to care for a parent or loved one.