Alzheimer S Caregiver Quotes & Sayings

Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge that we are included in the 'Love One Another. — Peggi Speers

Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on. — Bo Schembechler

Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together. — Nancy L. Kriseman

Never give up hope. If you do, you'll be dead already.
Dementia Patient, Rose from The Inspired Caregiver — Peggi Speers

I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide. I — Colleen Hoover

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier. — Ben Huh

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like. — Sara Genn

He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit. — Vernon D. Burns

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible. — Tia Walker

I know a person who will poke the fire, set chairs straight, pick dust specks from the floor, arrange his table, snatch up a newspaper, take down any book which catches his eye, trim his nails, waste the morning anyhow, in short, and all without premeditation - simply because the only thing he ought to attend to is the preparation of a noonday lesson in formal logic which he detests. - William James — Mason Currey

I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there. — Markus Zusak

As your care recipient's advocate, be involved, don't accept the status quo, and don't be afraid to voice your concerns. — Nancy L. Kriseman

The Tantric Man humps in a sensual press and release rhythm, while his lover blissfully enjoys! -Serena Jade author of Tantra: The Sexual Meditation — Serena Jade

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong — Richard Crossman

You're so worried that you can't ever be close to anyone, but it's not the face blindness that's to blame; it's you. All the smiling and the faking and pretending to be what you think people want you to be. That's what keeps you isolated. That's what screws you up. You need to try being a real person. — Jennifer Niven

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression. — Lincoln Kirstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. — Albert Einstein

One goal of the mindful caregiver is to find ways to not feel 'dis-eased' in the caregiving process. — Nancy L. Kriseman

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They're not as mature as women. They're not as connected with their emotions as women ... There's a very Neanderthal quality that still exists in a lot of men ... And if you're in the public eye, to me, it's very boring to say what you have to say and be media trained to the extent that you don't ever reveal any truth. There was a time in my life when I lived probably a bit more on the primal level. And it was amazing. — Adam Levine

My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make. — Nancy L. Kriseman

Tears water our eyes.

"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath. — Kathryn Harrison

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors. — Tia Walker

There was an omnipresent sense of crisis. — Fritz Leiber