Earned Wisdom: Becoming an Elder in Times of Chaos

Mari Aubuchon rated it really liked it May 09, Sandra rated it it was amazing Dec 11, Lorna added it Apr 18, Christine Blythe marked it as to-read Jan 11, Olga marked it as to-read Apr 10, Howard Krosnick marked it as to-read Sep 11, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Books by Julie Simmons. Trivia About Earned Wisdom: No trivia or quizzes yet. Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. Your greatest contribution may not be something you do but someone you raise.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family. Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse Jackson This is one of my favorite family quote. Treat your family like friends and your friends like family. Unknown Click to tweet. Helen Keller Click to tweet. Desmond Tutu Click to tweet. My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband.

And everything else is secondary to that. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Poor folks have neither any kindred nor any friends. What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us. Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life. A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Family is the most important thing in the world. Princess Diana Click to tweet. The most important thing in the world is family and love. As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr. Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream. Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements. Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live. Pope John Paul II. The family is the first essential cell of human society. You may also like inspirational quotes motivational quotes love quotes happiness quotes life quotes. Where life begins and love never ends. A little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud and a whole lot of love. In time of test, family is best. Burmese proverb Click to tweet.

When you love what you have, you have everything you need. Families are like branches on a tree — we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.

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There is no job more important than parenting. In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world. Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.

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The secret to happiness? The longest-running study on happiness. To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure.

My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean… For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Swindoll Click to tweet. Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family. Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family.

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Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry. You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other. Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

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Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. Leigh Hunt Click to tweet. If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home. I believe in large families: There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps. The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground. I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns Click to tweet.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

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Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable. There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. Never have more children than you have car windows.

Where the roots are deep, there is no reason to fear the wind. Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing. He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Few men have been admired of their familiars.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. We must take care of our families wherever we find them. Elizabeth Gilbert Click to tweet. The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Now, look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do. The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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Francis Bacon There are plenty of evidences that this is not true. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history. Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Mother is a verb. Not just who you are. Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. You are born into your family and your family is born into you.

If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. Sure, some people leave their comfort zone and see the world through a different lens, which opens them up in new and valuable ways, but others travel the world and don't learn at all.

If anything, Ardelt said, traveling just reinforces their negative stereotypes. The key is soaking up lessons wherever you are, whether it's the town where you've lived your entire life, or some far-flung location. Wise people see what's right in front of them.

After the publication of a recent New York Times article on the connection between age and wisdom which referenced Ardelt's research a reader wrote her summing up wisdom as, basically, understanding the obvious. We all know we're going to die, for example. Wise people have a better understanding of the meaning of that, and live differently -- placing an emphasis on relationships, spirituality and personal growth rather than on more superficial markers of success. In order to achieve that kind of direct, I-see-who-I-am, who-you-are, and-the-circumstances-right-in-front-of-us kind of knowledge, reflection is paramount, Ardelt says.

Which is why meditation -- a kind of self-examination -- has long been believed to be a pathway to wisdom. Wise people grow from crises. Often the people who are considered wise beyond their years have survived a trauma, or several, and have effectively coped with it, according to Ardelt. Indeed, there's an entire area of psychology dedicated to post-traumatic growth -- exploring the ways in which people who have survived something devastating emerge changed for the better.