Quotes About Nurture

Therefore, in order to take care of you, I have to take care of myself.

we had practiced watering the positive seeds in him every day, he would not be the way he is today.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, no culture comparable to that of the garden...But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.

To be an acorn is to have a taste for being an oak tree. Habitual grace brings with it all the Christian virtues in their seed.

Like all life, it grows sick and dies when it is uprooted from its proper element.

To love a person or a place is to take responsibility for its well-being.

To love a person or place is to take responsibility for its well-being.

A shepherdess makes quite a mess, but little lambs are lovely.

Marriage is like vitamins we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements.

Women can learn to be more confident and protective of our gifts, unwilling to buy into the stories written for us by other people. We can learn to expect to be honored for what we bring to the table. We can learn to unite our natural tendencies to nurture and heal by committing to our purpose, our mission, and our stories—our "Why.

Everything you have contact with will be woven into your garden

That's the thing about having a baby: they are a part of you that is outside of you, so you can love them in the way you can't stand to love yourself.

When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention. When we choose to see and appreciate what is good and beautiful in our children, that goodness can't help but grow, and their beauty blossoms forth.

Tapi tentu saja ada perbedaan antara 'menyayangi' dan 'membesarkan dengan baik'. Membesarkan dengan baik berarti memikirkan masa depannya dan memutuskan segala sesuatu yang terbaik untuknya. Namun aku tak bisa melakukan semua itu karena telanjur memperoleh sebuah objek tempat aku bisa menumpahkan seluruh rasa cintaku padanya. Uesugi

It is a terrible and exquisitely human irony that children inadequately nurtured almost never give up on the breast. The thirst for love from a mother or father who cannot provide it is seemingly unquenchable. I have treated sixty- and seventy-year-old business executives, politicians, and physicians still desperate for approval from shriveled, emotionally barren men and women in their eighties and nineties. (257)

He thought of relationships as finite, like a pie that can be cut into only so many pieces. Take a piece away, and there was that much less for him. I knew, however, that relationships are more like muscles—the more you work them, the stronger they become.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow.

Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them, they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves.

There's nothing loving or caring about a close parent-child relationship when it services the needs and feelings of a parent rather than the child.

TRAIN up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.