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Quotes About Cultivate

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Academies that are founded at the public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them. But in a free commonwealth arts and sciences will be better cultivated to the full if every one that asks leave is allowed to teach publicly, at his own cost and risk.
~ Will Durant
The spirit of property doubles a man's strength. It is certain that the possessor of an estate will cultivate his own inheritance better than that of another.
~ Will Durant
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden.
~ Chris Widener
Our heart is a garden, which the good God has given us to cultivate, and we must always be aware of the weeds that grow without observation. It is necessary that we should unceasingly apply ourselves to the cultivation of the good and the extraction of the evil which might take root.
~ Christoph von Schmid
MYTH It's not possible to learn how to be a dynamic leader. TRUTH Leadership presence can be cultivated and is available to me.
~ Helene Lerner
It is critical for us to cultivate consciousness and compassion towards our environment, create awareness, galvanize people, and build sustainable innovations for sustainable development.
~ Dia Mirza
Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
~ Wayne Dyer
The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vague.
~ John C. Crosby
Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood.
~ Stephanie Coontz
You keep meaning to cultivate an expertise in spectator sport. More and more you realize that sports trivia is crucial to male camaraderie. You keenly feel your ignorance. You are locked out of the largest fraternity in the country.
~ Jay McInerney
Morality is not first and foremost about restriction and constraint. It's about human flourishing. It's also about the deepest sort of happiness. And it's about living a good life, which is, in fact, the best life. It's all about what you honor, cultivate, do, and become. It's common to think of any rules and structures
~ Unknown
For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.
~ Pema Chodron
The Buddha taught that all beings have the potential to wake up completely, and that all of us will eventually get there. He and many other wise people in this world have given us tools for taking whatever occurs in our lives and using it to cultivate our basic goodness and become more and more able to be there for others. Whatever the future brings—welcome or unwelcome—we can use on our path of awakening. To me, this attitude is the best kind of optimism.
~ Pema Chodron
Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most mundane situation becomes a vehicle for awakening.
~ Pema Chodron
Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
~ Nikki Giovanni
I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.
~ Unknown
Do not spread the compost on the weeds.
~ William Shakespeare
One of the French lords says, "To lose gracefully is an art that every gentleman cultivates." "I hope to cultivate it too," he says. "If you see an example I might follow, please point it out.
~ Hilary Mantel
I do not have endless patience," Balekin growls. "Cultivate it," Cardan says, and with a small bow, he navigates us away from Balekin and Madoc.
~ Holly Black
A gardener! Isn't that the perfect description of what a real businessman is?
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
We almost need to cultivate - I hate to sound New Age-y - but to cultivate a positive bias, and really work to focus on those things and notice those things that are wonderful and uplifting.
~ Moby
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
~ Unknown
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
~ Vernon Howard