No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect. Maria Shriver
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
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John Joseph Powell
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
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Lois Lowry
You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.
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Amit Ray
I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the...
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Charlotte Eriksson
I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me.
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Charles Dickens
More Quotes By Maria Shriver
Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility–a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.
Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on
Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.
Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.
Having kids - the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings - is the biggest job anyone can embark on. As with any risk, you have to take a leap of faith and ask lots of wonderful people for their help and guidance....
