Kent Nerburn Quotes

United States, Author
July 3, 1946

Kent Michael Nerburn (born July 3, 1946 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American author. He has published 16 books of creative non-fiction and essays, focusing on Native American and American culture and general spirituality.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Kent Nerburn
- Life
- Heart
- Peace
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

Kent Nerburn
- Children
- Why
- Remember

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Kent Nerburn
- Father
Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Kent Nerburn
- Time
Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Kent Nerburn
- Heart
- Father
- Feeling
Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.

Kent Nerburn
- Life
- Remember
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Kent Nerburn
- Fall