Quotes About Nurture

One kind thing is the seed from which a great goodness grows. It is not hope we hold to, Niece. It is belief in the power of that growing goodness.

Although this explains the mysterious way Meloux seemed to have known he was coming, Cork still understands that the old Mide has a gift for such forewarnings. Meloux once explained it as a communication with nature that Cork himself could nurture if he was so inclined. "It is not a secret language," the Mide had said. "You need to quiet all the other voices in your head and listen.

I have in mind an experiment. Take an infant—regardless of ancestry, race, talent, or predilection, so long as he is essentially healthy—and I will make of him whatever you like. I will produce an artist, soldier, doctor, lawyer, priest; or I will raise him to be a thief. You may decide. The infant is equally capable of all these things. All that is required is training, time, and a properly controlled environment.

I have in mind an experiment. Take an infant—regardless of ancestry, race, talent, or predilection, so long as he is essentially healthy—and I will make of him whatever you like. I will produce an artist, soldier, doctor, lawyer, priest; or I will raise him to be a thief. You may decide. The infant is equally capable of all these things. All that is required is training, time, and a properly controlled environment." —JOHN F. WATKINS, Principles of Behaviorism (1913)

Anyway, the point is, I just think we flatter ourselves when we say we can engineer our kids to be this way or that way. It's mostly just hardwired.

Debemos ser en extremo cuidadosos De la semilla que nuestra mano sembrará; El amor del amor germinará, El odio del odio crecerá".

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.

The Orchid and the Dandelion (La orquídea y el diente de león)

Must we not protect children with all we are? And so the future.

The ego, or ordinary mind, is what develops after we are born. In part, it comes from inside but mostly from the outside—through our interactions with our parents, significant others, and our environment. We introject parts of them, which becomes a false self that gets enmeshed with our true self.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

The womb is like an altar, it's the place where God continually comes into the world and does what only God can do...create.

The church is God's vineyard.

He who makes a garden Works hand in hand with God.

Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Our gracious God, we need the ministry of the Spirit of God within our lives so that Your Word may take root within us.