Quotes About Nurturing

We make ourselves feel safe and loved. We do all those wonderful things for ourselves that we wish someone else would have done for us.

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

When men are able to assume an equal role with women as caregivers, it becomes most evident that they can nurture as well as women.

the family is the primary school for love...

I am grateful to have been raised in a family that was caring, and strongly believe that had my parents been loved well by their parents they would have given that love to their children. They gave what they had been given

Because children can innately offer affection or respond to affectionate care by returning it, it is often assumed that they know how to love and therefore do not need to learn the art of loving. While the will to love is present in very young children, they still need guidance in the ways of love. Grown-ups provide that guidance.

An individual does not need to be a believer in a religion to embrace the idea that there is an animating principle in the self - a life force (some of us call it soul) that when nurtured enhances our capacity to be more fully self-actualized and able to engage in communion with the world around us

WE LEARN ABOUT love in childhood. Whether our homes are happy or troubled, our families functional or dysfunctional, it's the original school of love.

M. Scott Peck's classic self-help book The Road Less Traveled, first published in 1978. Echoing the work of Erich Fromm, he defines love as "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

God made to spring up. It's a wonder that God would choose to slowly grow what He could have simply created grown. Why on earth would He go to the trouble to plant a garden forced to sprout rather than commanding it into existence, full bloom? Why leave His desk and get His pant legs soiled? Because God likes watching things grow.

Kittens are so messy and sometimes require several feedings a day.

I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

Males raised and nurtured on mama's 'love' resent the need that they have for women.

Having kids is the deal-breaker on shyness! Once you have a baby, you learn to speak up loud and clear to protect them, defend them, and encourage them. I have three sons, so I've experienced that in triplicate.

I used to tell my three younger siblings stories because that was my household chore, and I told long stories in installments because it was easier and more fun than making up a new story every night. I loved it.

My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you.

I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.