Quotes About Nurturing

A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

AP softens every member of the family. You will find yourself gradually becoming more caring and considerate to everyone around you.

Mothers are hormonally wired to respond to, not ignore, their baby's cries. (Fathers, take note: You can't argue with biology!)

If baby is thriving, but Mom is completely burned out because she is not getting the help she needs, something has to change.

Breastfeeding helps you unwind from a busy day's work and reconnect with your baby, especially after a tense day.

I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

It is the women who are responsible for bringing along the next generation to carry the culture forward.

A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future

Every time we do something nice for someone else, even if it is a routine thing they expect, we can do so with the thought 'By this act of love, or of giving happiness, may I attain enlightenment to liberate all living beings.' Every time we practice generosity, whether it is making a donation or nursing a cat, we can think the same thing.

He is a very special person, you know." I did know, because he always made sure my milk was warm—but not too hot—before giving it to me.

To take an analogy from botany, she imagined a child as an unopened flower; a parent had a responsability to provide light and water, but also to stand back and watch. 'He can do anything he wants', she said, 'as long as he's happy and cool.' In contrast, I saw no reason why the flower should not be bracketed to a bamboo stick, pruned, exposed to artificial light; if it made for a stronger, more resilient plant, why not? (pag. 337)

To love is to become loving.

Instead, he defined individualism as the freedom to achieve and the obligation to return something of value to the community that had nurtured and sustained him. I believe this was both the source and object of his philanthropy. As

I have always assumed that vigilance and love would guarantee a decent life for my children, but I

Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self.

Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.

Kindness and caring are ambrosia for the soul.

The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a fertile field in which seeds may be sown, to grow under the heat of flaming imagination.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

When the rosebud is still forming a little green ball, do you berate it for not being in full bloom? Hell, no!

She knew that she had brought him the very safety and sense of belonging that was so important for a child, but which he had never experienced in his family of origin.