Quotes About Caregiving

#1. When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was working at an ice-cream stand in my thirties. I learned that when you don't have anything to give, that's when you really give, and then you get back so much more.

Jonathan Evison

#2. Bonding through caregiving..I don't think I'd ever realized until then that so much affection, so much heart connect, happens when we take care of someone.

Lindsey O'Connor

#3. 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

#4. A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: " 'What is to give light must endure burning.' I think people who care for others understand. Caregiving is painful.

Alexandra Robbins

#5. In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

Gail Sheehy

#6. The feminine political voice is personal. It's intimate. It's caregiving and life enhancing. It's about bringing more love, caring and justice into the world. It's also fierce and determined.

Tabby Biddle

#7. Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

Tia Walker

#8. So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

Anna Quindlen

#9. Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.

Gary Zukav

#10. One goal of the mindful caregiver is to find ways to not feel 'dis-eased' in the caregiving process.

Nancy L. Kriseman

#11. Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.

Gail Sheehy

#12. Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

Gary Zukav

#13. When our expectations match our companion's capabilities, there is less stress for both parties. This is the secret to improving the dementia caregiving experience.

Judy Cornish

#14. To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.

Tia Walker

#15. By loving you more, you love the person you are caring for more.

Peggi Speers

#16. My caregiver mantra is to remember: the only control you have is over the changes you choose to make.

Nancy L. Kriseman

#17. In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have support or make time for self care.

Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

#18. You will never experience personal growth, if you fear taking chances. And, you will never become successful, if you operate without integrity.

T.A. Sorensen

#19. Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

Jerry Pinto

#20. It seems like it has been forever.
But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn't even started yet.

JohnA Passaro

#21. During the 24/7 grind of being a carer, it's all to easy to forget the fact that the person you're doing so much for is, and is obliged to be, more resourceful than you in many respects.

Naoki Higashida

#22. I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day.

Padma Lakshmi

#23. My original fear that my daughter was going to die before BettyJane and myself has now been replaced with the fear that she is going to outlive us.

JohnA Passaro

#24. Embracing a healing presence requires you to just be in the moment together.

Nancy L. Kriseman

#25. During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all the time. I kept thinking, and it's more beautiful in Spanish, but I wanted to bottle his breathing.

Kevin Renner

#26. Perspective is an incredibly powerful tool. It tempers how we receive information, and guides what we choose do with it.

T.A. Sorensen

#27. I am an unlikely guardian. A month ago I thought the Medicare doughnut hole was a breakfast special for seniors. I am a care inflictor.

George Hodgman

#28. The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96.

June Shaw

#29. 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

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

Peggi Speers