Quotes About Nurturing

When we bow to a child this way, we help him or her grow up beautifully and with self-confidence. If you plant corn, corn will grow. If you plant wheat, wheat will grow. If you act in a wholesome way, you will be happy. If you act in an unwholesome way, you water the seeds of craving, anger, and violence in yourself.

As a tender baby, we have arms and feet, but we can't use them. We need someone to take care of us. With original fear comes original desire. There is the fear of being left alone and there is the desire to survive. Even when we've grown up to be an adult, the original fear and original desire are still there.

Our mothers and fathers helped us come to be and, even nlw, they continue to give us life.

Your partner needs your attention and your watering of his or her positive seeds. Without that attention, your relationship will wither.

These are difficult times for educators who believe that learning is worth pursuing for its own sake and that the chief purpose of school is the nurturing of students as whole human beings.

I often tell parents, "Don't want your child to become something in particular; just want him to become." With such an attitude parents will inevitably find themselves feeling more and more accepting of each child and experiencing joy and excitement watching each become.

The role of enlightened parents is too strengthen the weak.

He was a very good gardener, understood flowers, and knew how to make things grow. What is more, he liked this kind of work almost as much as painting.

Do you feel in this letter my love for you today - It is as warm as a bird's nest.

Here, she curled up in a tight ball and waited, purred to her unborn babies. And the trees, the tall and kindly trees, watched over her while she slept, slept the whole night through.

Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

Learning to be present with an open heart for others is the best way to help them heal.

Raise the children you were given, not the ones you wish you had.

We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.

One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.

One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location where things feel safe and familiar. Home can be anyplace in which we create our own sense of rest and peace as we tend to the spaces in which we eat and sleep and play. It is a place that we create and re-create in every moment, at every stage of our lives, a place where the plain and common becomes cherished and the ordinary becomes sacred.

I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.

Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't.

Tog dana vra?aju?i se iz hotela plaza govorila je sama sebi da je njen ponosni gest, koji bi Zejnil smatrao bezumnim, važniji za dijete od svih pelena na svijetu, jer smješteno u njoj tako intimno zavisno od nje ono mora upiti u sebe njenu pobunu i prkos.

We were taught that the old people and the babies were the closest to God and it was for them that we all lived. They were the most helpless and they needed us the most.

Parents? affection is best shown by their teaching their children industry and self-denial.

The Black Church has no challenger as the cultural womb of the black community. Not only did it give birth to new institutions such as schools, banks, insurance companies, and low income housing, it also provided an academy and an arena for political activities, and it nurtured young talent for musical, dramatic, and artistic development.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.