Quotes About Cultivation

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Networking is more about farming than it is about hunting.

Pick the weeds and keep the flowers.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about

There is no piety in the world which is not the result of cultivation, and which cannot be increased by the degree of care and attention bestowed upon it.

While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of men. There are nations more susceptible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobled by mental cultivation than others—but none in themselves nobler than others.

Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.

I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it.

You can't buy class.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

Eco argues that the upswing in population size, energy, intellect, and the economy all derived from a new crop. It was in the tenth century that Europeans began the widespread cultivation of beans.

farms on the lower slopes of the mountain. As the eye moved from

our intellectual quest for truth can never be separated from the cultivation of our moral and aesthetic imagination.

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.