Elders Quotes - Page 2

• Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Past, Should Have

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.

  Black Elk

  Peace, Native American, Oneness

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• Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

  Crazy Horse

  Children, Native American, Parent

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• So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

  Chief White Eagle

  Native American, Long, Pieces

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• May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

  Chief Dan George

  Stars, Flower, Condolences

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• Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Encouragement, Children, Needs

  Corrie Ten Boom, Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). “Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom”

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• We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, Worry, Choices

  "Joycelyn Elders is Back!". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Treat your elders as elders, and extend it to the elders of others; treat your young ones as young ones, and extend it to the young ones of others; then you can turn the whole world in the palm of your hand

  Mencius

  Hands, World, Treats

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• Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

  Henry Adams

  Passion, Men, Young

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.166, Booklassic

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart.

  Kent Nerburn

  Wisdom, Children, Eye

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Web Of Life, Earth Day

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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• There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

  Jessamyn West

  Communication, Ignorance, Two

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket,
  he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Horse, Native American, Tents

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• The first peace, which is the most important,
  is that which comes within the souls of people
  when they realize their relationship,
  their oneness with the universe and all its powers,
  and when they realize that at the center of the universe
  dwells the Great Spirit,
  and that this center is really everywhere,
  it is within each of us.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wisdom

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux". Book by Black Elk and Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Spiritual, Compassion, Years

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• You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Progress, May, Juniors

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• But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

  Kent Nerburn

  Echoes, Childhood, Age

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.176, New World Library

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• Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Native American, Silence

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• It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

  Misty Upham

  Sacredness, Sacredness Of Life

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• The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

  T. S. Eliot

  Differences, Posing, Statesmen

  T.S. Eliot (2013). “The Elder Statesman”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Drama, Believe

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• 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, Children, Heart

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.203, New World Library

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• Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Funny, Yoga, Exercise

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