Quotes About Cultivation

True education always fosters humility, although mere accumulation of facts fosters pride. All these things are requisite in the cloister. Above all, authentic education fits a person for a life of solitude. A girl who has learned to cultivate the soil of her own intelligence is already conditioned for an interior life. Her education is thus supremely useful to her in the cloister.

He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.

El afecto que este huésped suscita en mí aumenta diariamente. Excita simultáneamente mi admiración y mi compasión en medida asombrosa, ¡Cómo puedo ver una criatura tan noble destruida por el sufrimiento, sin experimentar el dolor más acerbo! Es tan bondadoso, y al mismo tiempo tan sensato; su mente está tan cultivada; y cuando habla, aunque sus palabras están elegidas con el arte más refinado, fluyen con rapidez y elocuencia sin igual.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Strangest of all is the professional ginseng hunter, because for him it is not a plant but a religion.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

Almonds/Almond Butter Almonds are our oldest cultivated nut and one of the great foods of all time. And to think, not so long ago they were avoided by "health-conscious

Con el cultivo de la inteligencia vienen los gustos costosos

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

A primary task of the community of Jesus is to maintain this lifelong cultivation of love in all the messiness of its families, neighborhoods, congregations, and missions. Love is intricate, demanding, glorious, deeply human, and God-honoring, but — and here's the thing — never a finished product, never an accomplishment, always flawed in some degree or other.

When you plant seeds in the garden, you don't dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they're ready.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

To grow a song, you must plant a note.

Era uno de esos sentimientos puros que no estorban el ejercicio de la vida, que se cultivan porque son raros y cuya pérdida afligiría más de lo que alegraría su posesión.

Indeed, the key to all diplomacy was knowing when they were serious about their threats and when they were posturing. Nations were like individuals, requiring cultivation and the paying of respect.

I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren--and so it is; and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.

Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns.

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

Living well is an art which can be developed.