Care Quote by Honore de Balzac

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our…

— Hermann Hesse

Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why…

— Desmond Tutu

“Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding…

— Lama Surya Das

We cannot love authentically when we are not willing to sacrifice something for it.

— Anonymous

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

— Delano Johnson

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

— Michel de Montaigne

This physical world, though necessary to our evolution, is the embodiment of impermanence, of constant change. Thus, we take care not to become overly…

— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“Attachment is always a barrier to real appreciation and happiness, because it’s based on the illusion that some external element can make our core…

— Ezra Bayda

Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the…

— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

— Amos Oz