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Quotes About Nurture

The soil of our mind contains many seeds, positive and negative. We are the gardeners who identify, water, and cultivate the best seeds.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
In modern life, people tend to think their bodies belong to them, that they can do anything they want to themselves. But your body is not only yours. Your body belongs to your ancestors, your parents, and future generations. It also belongs to society and to all the other living beings. The trees, the clouds, the soil, and every living thing brought about the presence of your body. We can eat with care, knowing we are caretakers of our bodies, rather than their owners.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Our practice is to water the flower in our loved one, and not bring them more garbage.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
You have to protect yourself and your beloved ones by practicing selective watering.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When you plant a tree, if it doesn't grow well, you don't blame the tree.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take of your own garden and master the art of gardening.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.
~ Ellen Burstyn
I wanted to be a 'jungle mom', where you're giving birth and getting up and doing things straightaway.
~ Grace Jones
Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.
~ Kate Middleton
He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
~ Thomas Griffith
Children are our future and every child deserves to have an environment where they can learn and flourish and gain knowledge.
~ Lil Jon
Let Daddy help.
~ Karen Chance
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
~ Karen Maezen Miller
Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?
~ Karen Maezen Miller
from The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran. Your children are not your children, They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children. After
~ Karen Russell
A life without rain is like the sun without shade.
~ Karen White
Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them
~ Karen White
That there are no troubles in life that can't be sorted through or solved by spending time in the garden
~ Karen White
Because a garden is the heart of a house, where love is the seed and the dark earth like a mother who nurtures her saplings until they bloom, and then waits for them with furrowed arms to return. It is the story told again and again from my garden: from dust we begin, and to dust we will return again.
~ Karen White
Must take care of de root for to heal de tree.
~ Karen White