Quotes About Nurture

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

Like a plant, the kind of seed that goes into the ground—your innate temperament—is only part of the story. The quality of soil, water, and sun also deeply affects the grown plant that is now you.

If the relationship has been a source of comfort, it also deserves your seeing that it continue to be a source of satisfying self-expansion.

Many children born very sensitive are pushed hard by parents, schools, or friends to be bolder. Living in a noisy or crowded environment, growing up in a large family, or being made to be more physically active may sometimes reduce sensitivity, just as sensitive animals that are handled a great deal will sometimes lose some of their natural caution, at least with certain people or in specific situations. That the underlying trait is entirely gone, however, seems unlikely.

I felt the need, as I had long ago, to take care of him, to tend to him, to protect him, to sustain him in everything that he would do in the course of his life.

Remember, you have the best heart and mind, and whatever you do is right. Bye-bye, my sweet. Don't forget the food group.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

'Men have forgotten this truth ' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Thus the Emperor penguin is compelled to undertake all kinds of hardships because his children insist on developing so slowly, very much as we are tied in our human relationships for the same reason. It is of interest that such a primitive bird should have so long a childhood.

In the new definition of success, building and looking after our financial capital is not enough. We need to do everything we can to protect and nurture our human capital.

Just as a seed grows with the warmth of the sun, so our positive qualities grow when we put our attention on them.

Most hearth-based house witches gravitate to the path because they feel the need to care for and nurture those who are close to them.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

I felt that there were no magazines or books around in the Stone Age, and yet every schmuck took care of babies back then, so how wrong could you go? As long as you love the baby, you figure it out, just like with everything you love doing.

If you're designing a hammer, it's clear that it should hit a nail. But when designing a home, it's much more nuanced. You have to make sure there are qualities that nurture and enrich human life.

I look at people in certain circumstances, and I fall into caretaker mode real quick, real easy. I like to shoulder people up and carry them along, and then I end up creating some kind of dependency. I enable. It's really, really hard for me.

I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.

When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.

There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

I have said many times: We have self-esteem or don't, based on how we were raised! Self-esteem is normally produced in your first 7-8 years of life.

Any dog can be aggressive; it's basically the way they're raised.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.