Quotes About Nurture

Man is the Child of his Environment

Our aim needs to be the nurturing of children. The moment we rigidly convince ourselves, "Education is what we're after," we warp a child's development. -1-  First foster the heart, then help the child acquire ability. This is indeed nature's proper way.

If we all have a sufficiently stimulating environment, then our inherent abilities—our genetic gifts—will dominate in the unfolding of our lives. If we lack a sufficiently stimulating environment, our cognitive gifts never have the chance to blossom.

Mother is a verb, not a noun.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

Clothes are like children.... the smaller they are the more care they need

Patience is when you don't eat your egg only to let it turn into a chicken and pay higher dividends

Yes, we do need love just as we need food and water, but there is a difference. Food and water are elements of the earth that sustain our physical bodies, whereas love is the language of G-d, which sustains our soul.

Do not teach them about wealth, neither the power, instead preach the word of love and kindness to them, for the world of your children and grandchildren not to be like the ones before.

Never seek what you are not, but nurture what you are.

Plant the seed of love and water it with respect.

Take good care of the gift you have been given.

The rain will fall down, just prepare the soil.

Trust only exists after we have planted it.

The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

suppose we are all the products of our parents' joy and suffering. Their emotions are written into us, as much as the inscriptions made by their genes.

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

The most important medicine is tender love and care.

How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

We all think there is a formula, (but) as long as we love our children, that's really the only solid thing I know that works across the board.