Quotes About Nurturing

My father is very supportive of anything that his kids want to do.

I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.

My parents were the best. They were very supportive.

I grew up in a really supportive environment.

My parents were very supportive.

My parents have always been super supportive.

My father was a farm boy who never learned to be holding and supportive.

I suppose it is easy for an actress to act maternal at any age, since all women have a nurturing instinct after 20, perhaps even earlier.

While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

Train those around you well, Pug. Make them powerful, but make them loving, generous men and women as well.

When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all of these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to speak and given a thousand other things, over and over again, hourly, daily, for years. She gave me everything before she gave me nothing.

One of the reasons people lock onto motherhood as a key to feminine identity is the belief that children are the way to fulfill your capacity to love. But there are so many things to love besides one's own offspring, so many things that need love, so much other work love has to do in the world.

There is no human alive today who was not created and held inside the living altar of a woman.

NEARLY ALL OF us receive our first lessons in peaceful living from our mothers, because the need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. From the earliest stages of our growth, we are completely dependent upon our mother's care and it is very important for us that she express her love. If children do not receive proper affection, in later life they will often find it hard to love others.

We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism—something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.*

Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways.

Spending time in solitude with your artist child is essential to self-nurturing.

Fostering our children's creativity, we are fostering our children's spirituality as well.

You do not take anyone on this artist date but you and your inner artist, a.k.a. your creative child. That means no lovers, friends, spouses, children—no taggers-on of any stripe.

The morning pages will teach you to stop judging and just let yourself write. So what if you're tired, crabby, distracted, stressed? Your artist is a child and it needs to be fed. Morning pages feed your artist child. So write your morning pages.

Remember, it takes nurturing to make an artist. Shadow artists did not receive sufficient nurturing. They blame themselves for not acting fearlessly anyhow.

Remember, your artist is a child. Find and protect that child. Learning to let yourself create is like learning to walk.