"Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection."
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"It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves."
"People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone."
"The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy."
"Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps."
"Really, it [the Waitress] was a story about believing in yourself ultimately, and caring enough about yourself to change your life."
"I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul."
"I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world."
"If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks."
"Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless..."
"It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I wasn’t. I knew it, and I hated her for it. I hated her for not caring about me. I hated her for leaving that night, and I hated myself , too, not only because I let her go but because if I had been enough for her, she wouldn’t have even wanted to leave. She would have just lain with me and talked and cried, and I would have listened and kissed at her tears as they pooled in her eyes."
"Love is acceptance - accepting people as they are. Just acceptance and caring."
"A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship."