Quotes About Nurturing

Parents are the keepers of their children's memories until they're old enough to hold their own.

This is what we need from our parents, more than the truth about how small we are. We will have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.

It is easy to become a father, but very difficult to be a father.

To heal a person, one must first be a person. We are all spiritual beings. Health care is a spiritual discipline. Notes

El verdadero sabio gobierna a las personas «cuidando de ellas y alimentándolas, pero sin reclamarlas para sí», y elimina los motivos de disputa en vez de castigar las consecuencias:

Islamic extremism is just the latest virus to thrive in Europe's nurturing environment. - Gabriel Allon

your mother's

babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.

Every day, I try to be my own parent - the parent I never had.

It's inconvenient and it's maddening and it's frustrating and it's sometimes painfully difficult to love another person, even or especially our own child. But this love is our spiritual practice. It is our work and our task down here on this mortal coil. It is not only the oxygen that we offer to our children, it's what makes us able to breathe, ourselves.

Bolshoi…A mother's life, one long errand. One enormous chore.

Relationships are living things—they require tending. Like plants, they flourish when they are cared for. Our ended relationships remind us of how much nurturing was withheld, how many resentments piled up, how much communication never occurred, how many needs went unfulfilled. They challenge us to see how we were lazy last time and what we must do differently in order to cultivate our next relationship.

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If women were cowards, there wouldn't be babies, Sir Ringwood.

Life is meaningless, but it also has meaning—or, more accurately, meanings. There is no such thing as the meaning of life. Many different meanings are possible. One can transcend the self and make a positive mark on the lives of others in myriad ways. These include nurturing and teaching the young, caring for the sick, bringing relief to the suffering, improving society, creating great art or literature, and advancing knowledge.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most domineering virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.

The whole theme of motherhood and family life, with those sweet affections which illuminate it, must be the fountain spring of present happiness and future survival.

In to je moja formula: osnova so najboljše, sveže in naravne sestavine, in vedno kuhati z ljubeznijo.

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,To teach the young idea how to shoot.

The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values.

Education means only this- that the lively alert fearless curiosity of children must be fed, must be kept alive. That is education.

Once I was born, her hopes had turned and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun

Who had Mama been, what had she wanted to be or do before I was born? Once I was born, her hopes had turned, and I had climbed up her life like a flower reaching for the sun.