Quotes About Nurture

Your True Self is who you are, and always have been in God . . . The great surprise and irony is that you, or who you think you are, have nothing to do with its original creation or its demise. It's sort of disempowering and utterly empowering at the same time, isn't it? All you can do is nurture it.

We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.

The universe story and the human story are a play of forces rational and nonrational, conscious and unconscious; of fate and fortune, nature and nurture. Forces of good and evil play out their tragedies and their graces—leading us to catastrophes, backtracking, mutations, transgressions, regroupings, enmities, failures, mistakes, and impossible dilemmas.

Humans like, need, and trust our mothers to give us gifts, to nurture us, and always to forgive us, which is what we want from God.

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me.

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that is what my mother made me.

The smallest seedlings, Demeter often told me, grow into century oaks.

A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.

Murder and suicide aren't genetic ,' Julia said, scoffing sandwiches in the Black Swan in Helmsley after their visit to Rievaulx Terraces. 'Nathan isn't predisposed to tragedy.' Jackson wasn't so sure about that but he kept that thought to himself.

Why did you have children?' Bertie asked, later in their lives. 'Was it just the biological imperative to breed?' 'That's why everyone has children,' Viola said. 'They just dress it up as something more sentimental.') Viola

Never begrudge the seed you sow in good soil, for it is the harvest that comes from that sowing that will determine whether you live or die next spring. Think not only for this day, but for the one that is to come.

To give children the words they need is to give them life, growth and refreshment

Her niece had the parenting skills of a … Rose didn't even know how to finish that sentence. Any creature in nature so incapable of caring for its young would have died out centuries ago.

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

Este hombre te ha dado de comer, te ha vestido y te ha amado de forma incondicional durante tres décadas. Si la palabra «padre» tiene algún significado, entonces tu padre es él.

going to put something on your arm to make it better. Try to keep still, will you?' Minnie nodded. Caris poured a little of the warm wine on to Minnie's wrist, where the burn was least bad. The child flinched, but did not try to snatch

A mother is always worried.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.

Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.