Quotes about Care

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

All these things speak their care for me.
And I have moved from sunlight,
lavishly expending itself on the backs
of buildings, into walls that hold me
for all they're worth, doing
everything they can to keep me safe...

Be of love a little more careful than of anything

When I'm in this place I have not a care in the world, for I cast all my cares upon you.

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

The Starfish -Ka Hôkû Kai  [kah HOH' KOO' kai]

Once upon a time, there was a wise kupuna (elder), who went to the sea to contemplate. One day while walking along the shore, the kupuna looked down the beach, and saw a gracefully dancing human figure. The kupuna wondered out loud, "who would so joyfully greet this day with hula?" and began to walk faster to catch up.  Getting closer ...

the kupuna saw that the dancer was a keiki (child), who was not dancing at all. The keiki was reaching down to the sand to pick up something, and was gently throwing it into the sea. The kupuna called out to the keiki, "Aloha! What are you doing?"

The keiki paused, looked up and replied, "Throwing starfish into the sea." Surprised, the kupuna sputtered, "I guess I should have asked, "Why are you throwing starfish into the sea?" The keiki smiled brightly, pointed upward and, with exquisite simplicity, replied "The sun is up, the tide is going out, if I don't throw them in they will die." "But don't you realize," asked the kupuna, "that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along it? You can't possibly make a difference!"

The keiki listened politely. Then bent down, picked up another starfish, and threw it gently into the sea, just beyond the breaking waves, and exuberantly declared, "It made a difference for that one."

In each and every one of us, there is something very special. We have all been gifted with the ability to make a positive difference.  If we are fortunate enough to fully accept and acknowledge that gift, we gain the "mana", the power to shape the future.

Like the starfish, you have been chosen out of the multitude, to surf upon this cyber-shore and be inspired by a child's wisdom.  Become the wise keiki. "The sun is up, the tide is going out.  If you don't throw them in, they will die."

Return the aloha spirit back into your Sea of Life. Find your starfish. Throw them gently and wisely back into the sea so they may live.  Making a difference, you will Live!

And we are all The Blessed. Ola! (Live!)
Adapted by a kupuna from a story by Author Unknown
'Olelo No'eau - Hawaiian Proverbs

Love and care for all animals, don't kill or eat them.

Look, the sower went out, took a handful of seeds, and scattered them. Some fell on the road, and the birds came and gathered them. Others fell on rock, and they didn't take root in the soil and didn't produce heads of grain. Others fell on thorns, and they choked the seeds and worms ate them. And others fell on good soil, and it produced a good crop: it yielded sixty per measure and one hundred twenty per measure.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Call forth the sacredness of the earth now, the holiness of the living, breathing planet and breathe with the earth, blessing and being blessed as the light of the earth flows to you and as the light of your own heart flows to the beloved earth. There is a partnership, a communion between you and the land, between the land and you. This runs deep beneath the streets, deep beneath the buildings, deep throughout and beneath the seas. The earth is sacred. The earth is our mother; we must take care of her.

You'll understand what life is if you think about the act of dying. When I die, how will I be different from the way I am right now? In the first moments after death, my body will be scarcely different in physical terms than it was in the last seconds of life, but I will no longer move, no longer sense, nor speak, nor feel, nor care. It's these things that are life. At that moment, the psyche takes flight in the last breath.

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

What is rooted is easy to nourish.
What is recent is easy to correct.
What is brittle is easy to break.
What is small is easy to scatter.

Prevent trouble before it arises.
Put things in order before they exist.
The giant pine tree
grows from a tiny sprout.
The journey of a thousand miles
starts from beneath your feet.

Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm
at the end as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.

"The truth is, the Universe will always take care of you."

Risk more than others think is safe, care more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible.

 If everyone cared and nobody cried,
 If everyone loved and nobody lied,
 If everyone shared and swallowed their pride,
 Would we see the day when nobody died

Be Good to yourself;
If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?