Quotes About Nurture

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.

The answer to violence is the improvement of childhood.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

One of the greatest influences a person can have in this world is to influence a child.

It is easier to build a boy than to mend a man.

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

The soul's garden is watered by love's rivers.

Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will support your light.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two hundred repetitions of the same or a similar lesson would be wedded indissolubly. What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

Todos somos como somos porque hemos sido algo antes

When you nurture Nature, Nature nurtures you.

If you nurture Life, Life will nurture you.

There is a saying that you learn how to love others through the love others show you—but what if no one showed you how? Recent findings from interpersonal biology show that early losses and chronic unpredictable stress alter the neurocircuitry of the young brain in ways that dramatically change our later ability to create and nurture successful, meaningful relationships.