66 Heartfelt Care Quotes

In a world that constantly moves at a rapid pace, finding moments of genuine care and connection become precious gems that offer comfort and warmth to our hearts. Whether it’s through words of encouragement, acts of kindness, or simply being present for someone else, heartfelt care can have a profound impact on our well-being. This collection of 66 heartfelt care quotes is curated to inspire and remind us of the beauty and strength found in caring for one another. Each quote embodies the power of empathy, love, and compassion, offering guidance and solace in times when we need it most. Let these words serve as a gentle reminder of the importance of nurturing the human spirit and fostering connections that uplift and support those we cherish.

1. “I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” - Leo Tolstoy

2. “Sundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor in the weekday weather madebanked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the coldand polished my good shoes as well.What did I know, what did I knowof love's austere and lonely offices?” - Robert Hayden

3. “Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.” - Santosh Kalwar

4. “Naruto: I bet you're dying to know my name!Gaara: I couldn't care less.” - Masashi Kishimoto

5. “When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head constantly spin with riddles and rhymes and was his only job to put them down? What if he couldn’t get them to make sense, and no one, not even the person he cared for most, could have pleasure in reading it? What would he do?” - Alysha Speer

6. “People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.” - Jodi Picoult

7. “Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't blame them. It's superstition: If you give assistance to the family in need... if you throw salt over your shoulder... if you don't step on the cracks, then maybe you'll be immune. Maybe you'll be able to convince yourself that this could never happen to you.” - Jodi Picoult

8. “Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.” - Karl Lagerfeld

9. “Quand on a terminé sa toilette du matin, il faut faire soigneusement la toilette de la planète.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

10. “We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.(pg. 73, "Feminism, the Body, and the Machine")” - Wendell Berry

11. “No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.” - Jay Asher

12. “My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a sort of brave way. It's not as if I'm never friendly. Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but i do care for some people.” - Suzanne Collins

13. “The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.” - Carson McCullers

14. “Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.” - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

15. “I care so much about everything that I care about nothing” - William Saroyan

16. “My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on.-Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn” - J.R.R. Tolkien

17. “Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me.""Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful.” - Rick Riordan

18. “Sincerity increases willingness to care.” - Toba Beta

19. “want people to rock out in the car and not care that people are watching, I love that feeling when the sequences are all perfect and you can just press play. I want the music to take you on a journey.” - Blake Lewis

20. “Such a number of nights,' said the girl, with a touch of woman's tenderness, which communicated something like sweetness of tone, even to her voice; 'such a number of nights as I've been patient with you, nursing and caring for you, as if you had been a child: and this the first that I've seen you like yourself; you wouldn't have served me as you did just now, if you'd thought of that, would you? Come, come; say you wouldn't.” - Charles Dickens

21. “With infinite wisdom and care your life is constantly sustained because Nature flows through you.” - Michael J. Cohen

22. “Dylan Jerome," the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.” - Jodi Picoult

23. “...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.” - Nina LaCour

24. “Humans do have authority over creation—but it is a delegated authority to care for animals as God would and not to destroy them. All life still belongs to the Creator of life, as it did the in the beginning.” - Richard A. Young

25. “Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools.” - Marie Lu

26. “She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch.” - Nalini Singh

27. “After fight club you're so relaxed, you just cannot care.” - Chuck Palahniuk

28. “Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.” - Criss Jami

29. “My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves" -Socrates” - Socrates

30. “Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.” - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

31. “I tend the wounded,/and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.” - Em Claire

32. “Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.” - Steve Maraboli

33. “Ah, damn it, lass,'he called after her. 'I've busted my stitches wide open.''What?'she cried, hurrying back to him. 'Let me see!''Ah-ha!' He snared her around the waist, dragging her down with him to his lap.'You still care for me!” - Kresley Cole

34. “The fact that you don't hate him for this breaks my heart. And if we weren't leaving because of what they'd done to you, we'd be leaving because the pack has twisted you enough to make you think that it's okay for someone to treat you that way.” - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

35. “My mouth opened.It happened.Yes, with my head thrown into the sky, I started howling.Arms stretched out next to me, I howled, and everything came out of me. Visions pored up my throat and past voices surrounded me. The sky listened. The city didn't. I didn't care. All I cared about was that I was howling so that I could hear my voice and so I would remember that the boy had intensity and something to offer. I howled, oh, so loud and desperate, telling a world that I was here and I wouldn't lie down.” - Markus Zusak

36. “Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.” - Cassandra Clare

37. “Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care ofAngelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way too big for her own good. I worrybecause she doesn't see everyone for who they are. She's too busy looking for the good.I've tried to get her to adopt some cynicism, but the truth of the matter is, she wouldn't bethe same girl if she did.” - Maya Banks

38. “... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go"... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened."pg 100 Meredith to Vlad” - Heather Brewer

39. “People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.” - John Green

40. “Soar with wit. Conquer with dignity. Handle with care.” - Criss Jami

41. “Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.” - Robert M. Pirsig

42. “The best gifts one can give to someone are not things, the best ones to offer are a little Time, Love, Care and Respect.” - Venkat Desireddy

43. “Marcus stepped behind the bar, saying, “Dan sent me over to assist you and learn how to tend the bar.” Doms could be pain-in-the-ass mother hens.” - Cherise Sinclair

44. “If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.” - L.J. Smith

45. “He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.” - Stephen King

46. “A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase.” - Abbi Glines

47. “Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.” - Paul Hoffman

48. “Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.” - Leila Sales

49. “As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.” - Natalie Goldberg

50. “When You Care, People Notice” - Nicolette Wuring

51. “Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

52. “Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.Then only LOVE remains...” - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

53. “The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

54. “The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.” - Bryant McGill

55. “What we do to others, we do to ourselves..” - Bryant McGill

56. “Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love” - Bryant McGill

57. “If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.” - Bryant McGill

58. “Love and respect changes everything.” - Bryant McGill

59. “Be careful, Hally.""Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.” - Athol Fugard

60. “We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.” - Bryant McGill

61. “We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.” - Bryant McGill

62. “We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.” - Bryant McGill

63. “We must remember that nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.” - Bryant McGill

64. “We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.” - Bryant McGill

65. “We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.” - Bryant McGill

66. “When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.” - Bryant McGill