Helpful Quotes for Caregivers

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

--Bonnie Jean Wasmund

"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."

 --Deepak Chopra

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

 --Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Only a life lived for others is worth living."

 --Albert Einstein

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."  

--Leo Buscaglia

"The capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest meaning and significance"

--Pablo Casals

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

-- Lao-Tzu

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

--Marcel Proust

"Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.  It is something I cannot explain, something within that sends a glow of warmth all through you."

-- Honore de Balzac

"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of 
our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to 
humanity."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
If you wish to know that you are safe,
cause another to know that they are safe.
If you wish to better understand
seemingly incomprehensible things,
help another to better understand.
If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger,
seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.
Those others are waiting for you now.
They are looking to you for guidance,
for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding,
and for assurance at this hour.
Most of all, they are looking to you for love.
My religion is very simple. 
My religion is kindness."

-- Dalai Lama