Inspiring Quotes for Caregivers — 4/22/09: Trading Places
Exactly one year ago today, I wrote my first post containing a quote by Nehru to inspire family caregivers.
Wow, where has the time gone?!
This community has grown so much in the last year, we’ve “talked” about many topics, and I’ve enjoyed learning from all of you so much!
To mark this one year “anniversary” and because a blog is an online dialogue, I’d like you to write one of your favorite inspiring quotes, poems, song lyrics or stories in the Comment section below.**
What do you read or turn to for comfort or inspiration when you’re feeling down and need a lift?
Turnabout is fair play . . . . yes? 
Thank you for sharing with me and our entire community — today and every day you take the time to read and comment my blog! I am deeply grateful.
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Happy quoting anniversary!
Here’s a quote:
“You must look into other people as well as at them.”
Lord Chesterfield
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Here’s a child’s rhyme from bygone days from “McGuffey’s Second Reader:”
Beautiful faces are they that wear
The light of a pleasant spirit there;
Beautiful hands are they that do
Deeds that are noble, good and true;
Beautiful feet are they that go
Swiftly to lighten another’s woe.
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And here’s a story that is a wake up call to compassion:
Grandmother’s Table (adapted from the Brothers Grimm)
Once there was a feeble old woman whose husband died and left her all alone, so she went to live with her son and his wife and their own little daughter.
Every day the old woman’s sight dimmed and her hearing grew worse, and sometimes at dinner her hands trembled so badly the peas rolled off her spoon
or the soup ran from her cup. The son and his wife could not help but be annoyed at the way she spilled her meal all over the table.
And one day, after she knocked over a glass of milk, they told each other that enough is enough. They set up a small table for her in the corner next
to the broom closet and made the old woman eat her meals there. She sat all alone, looking with tear-filled eyes across the room at the others. Sometimes they spoke to her while they ate, but usually it was to scold her for dropping a bowl or a fork.
One evening just before dinner, the little girl was busy playing on the floor with her building blocks, and her father asked her what she was making. “I’m
building a little table for you and mother,” she smiled, “so you can eat by yourselves in the corner someday when I get big.”
Her parents sat staring at her for some time and then suddenly both began to cry. That night they led the old woman back to her place at the big table.
From then on she ate with the rest of the family, and her son and his wife never seemed to mind a bit when she spilled something every now and then.
Hi Lori — SpaceAgeSage,
Thank you for sharing so much beauty with us!
The quote reminds me of one of the themes from “The Little Prince.” My eyes teared up when I read the short story. And I am going to use the McGuffey poem in a thank you note for my mom’s caregivers that I’m presently writing. Perfect timing — as is much in life. Thank you again!
“It is not that we dare because things are difficult; It is that we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca
Wow, rummuser! Awesome quote!! Thanks for sharing it here.
I’m going to print it out for my bulletin board as a reminder to take action — even if it feels scary or risky.