Quotes About Nurture

Treat yourself as you would treat anyone you really love.

HANDS: I handle all ideas with love and ease.

However, I Would Not Blame Our Parents for This We are all victims of victims, and they could not possibly have taught us anything they did not know. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself.

nurture yourself by saying in your mind, "I approve of myself," several hundred times a day. Take back your own power.

She'd wanted to run an inn. To welcome people, to mother them. They had no children of their own, and she had a powerful need to nurture.

There were Romulus and Remus. They were saved by a she-wolf. Suckled. But that was Roman mythology, not the bible. Wolves.

I pray my soul will welcome always that small seed. That I will hail it when it enters me. I don't mind being grit, soil, dirt, mud-brown, laced with the rot of old leaves, if only the seed can

He who plants a tree Plants a hope.

did not realize at that time that when you plant seeds, you also get roots.

I wonder how long it takes before the polish given by nature gets worn off by nurture.

Sometimes when you pick up your child, you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood. Finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

Later, as I got to know her, I'd realize that when she gardens, she never sees the seed. She is already picturing the plant it will become.

I did not realize at that time that when you plant seeds, you also get roots.

Children didn't make their own mistakes. They plunged into the pits they'd been led to by their parents.

Are we born who we are, or do we make ourselves that way?

Gardens by their very nature are fragile beings that live in the two dimensions of time and care.

Friendship with children unwraps their hidden potentials.

Friendship with children is the map for transferring to them anything you want them to have.

Friendship With Children Contributes To Their Psychosocial Development

Every friendship has its own seed.

Every friendship has its own children.

Friendship with children is fundamental for their spiritual development.

Friendship with children is the hidden key for unlocking the nature of God in them.

moorhen swam on the water, delicately unzipping the placid surface as it went, her half-grown chicks strung out in a line behind her, bobbing along.