Quotes About Cultivation

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

Being Classy is an acquired taste. And once acquired, impossible to do without.

You can pay for school but you can't buy class!

Science keeps down the weed of superstition not by logic, but by rendering the mental soil unfit for its cultivation

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.

If habits, lifestyles, or personalities are fruits, then thoughts, words or actions are seeds. Change your seeds and the fruits will change accordingly. This can be shown as a flow like this: Thoughts -> Words -> Actions -> Habits -> Character -> Destiny.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying "Why?

We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.

Our [western] culture cuts us off from our natural roots, instead of contributing toward the cultivation of the natural beings we are. This tradition has, in this way, rendered us extraneous to our environment, extraneous to one another as living beings, en even extraneous to ourselves.

Leadership is developed, not discovered. It's a process. Three

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits.

The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.

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child is not born with the tendency to neglect; it has to be acquired.

Hipsterism is the purposeful cultivation of uncool and esoteric tastes, and sometimes a shortcut to that aesthetic is to embrace the ugly.

Fine and delicate taste is the fruit of education and experience.

Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

Happiness is not something that happens,it is not something that is the result of good luck or random occurrences, nor is it a result of a monetary purchase or power. Rather happiness is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person.

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