"Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and a mirror of our own mortality. It takes a person of great heart to see past this fact and to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us."

-- Kent Nerburn

#Gratitude Quotes #Children Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Impact is more important than method.”
“I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it.”
“She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.”
“My best beauty secret is simple: Have the right palette and the right colors and remember, you need so much less makeup than you think.”
“Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”
“Pretty as a picture, sweeter that a swisher. Mad â€˜cause Iâ€™m cuter that the girl thatâ€™s with yaâ€™.”
“I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.”
“I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.”

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