Quotes about nurture

Brian Greene -

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

J.R.D. Tata -

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan or command a work of genius at will. But do we give sufficient thought to the nurture of the young investigator, to providing the right atmosphere and conditions of work and full opportunity for development? It is these things that foster invention and discovery.

Mary Buchan - Over iT: How to Live Above Your Circumstances and Beyond Yourself

Nurture your health, both inside and out.

Sanjo Jendayi -

Let us grow strong rootsWatering and nurturing Each other daily.

François Lelord - Hector and the Search for Happiness

Basically, having a gift for happiness was a bit like being good at maths or games: it depended partly on the development of the brain after you were born, ad even before, but also on how your parents or other adults had brought you up when you were small. And of course on your own efforts and subsequent encounters.'Nature or nurture,' said the professor. 'Whichever way, the parents are to blame!

Grigoris Deoudis -

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.

Jim George -

To please God, live a godly life and nurture kindness, compassion, justice, and humility.

Nikki Rowe -

The world could be a little less cruel, if we nurture each other while we grow; learn understanding while we transform and maintain a humble attitude whilst we succeed.

Vernon Howard -

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Truth Devour - Wantin

May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

Susie Clevenger -

A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.

Michael Bassey Johnson - The Infinity Sign

So many had burned opportunities in the name of postponement, believing that another opportunity will arise. They fail to seize the spur of the moment, without thinking that maybe, that could be their last chance to actualize their long nurtured dreams. Achieving your heart desires in this century requires your alertness, diligence, and overcoming the hindrances that procrastination brings.

Jennifer Chiaverini -

When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.

Anthony Biglan - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men and 17.9 percent of women were smoking (CDC 2011). These numbers represent one of the twentieth century’s most important public health achievements.

George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

Sunday Adelaja -

Nurture the vision God has put in you

Plato -

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Nikki Rowe - Now a Woman

Provide a safe place for people to be their 100% self, this world is already guarded and fearful, trained to keep walls up and throw away the keys. A harden heart is no pure reality and for too long, we have all stood to allow it; so instead of excusing mimisfortune, let's bathe eachother in compassion and grow beyond what we've been taught

Annie Leibovitz -

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

Elizabeth George - A Woman's High Calling

Pray for God’s grace to nurture on the inside what He calls us to live out on the outside.

H. Raven Rose - Shadow Selves: Double Happiness

She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.

Gina Greenlee - Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from yourdesk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.

Elizabeth George -

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

Connie Kerbs - and the Miracle of Love

The best antidote to the furtive poison of anger, fear, anxiety, or any of our destructive, unwieldy passions, is just gratitude. And not the grandiose, boisterous or especially obvious kind. It is not necessarily the verbose or expressive kind. It's often the full immersion, a kind of deep submersion even, into a pool of awareness. This penitent affect distills within us surreal realizations; it is a focus, tinged with layers of deep remorse and the profound beauty of newfound appreciation that

Serina Hartwell -

We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.

Grace Willows -

We cannot see love yet its nurturing warmth is the essence of our being and sorrow can touch our very soul. For remorse is like a ripple on the ocean, once given it remains only in the heart of the receiver.Believe in Yourself by Grace Willows

Santosh Kalwar -

O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.

Vishwas Chavan -

Embrace, nurture, love and celebrate the child in self and others; because being child is being a future.

Tedd Tripp -

As a parent, you have authority because God calls you to be an authority in your child's life. You have the authority to act on behalf of God. As a father or mother, you do not exercise rule over your jurisdiction, but over God's. You act at his command. You discharge a duty that he has given. You may not try to shape the lives of your children as pleases you, but as pleases him. All you do in your task as parents must be done from this point of view. You must undertake all your instruction, you

Gordon B. Hinckley -

I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love, and motivation to grow and do well.

Gordon B. Hinckley -

I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is welcomed, nurtured, loved, and blessed with parents, a father and a mother, who live with loyalty to one another and to their children.

Mark Z. Danielewski -

the seriousness of emotional deprivation:It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so they can go on to lead normal lives. If, however, the starvation is severe enough, the damage will be permanent and they will suffer physical impairments for the rest of their lives. Likewise, children who are deprived of emotional nurturing require care and love if their sense of security and self

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha -

No matter the nature of your individuality, you can nurture a better identity and have a mature positively rewarding life.

Steve Goodier -

When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

Anthony Biglan - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history.

bell hooks - All About Love: New Visions

When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care.... An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught that we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as we were also taught to

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

Marvin J. Ashton -

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.

Amy Leigh Mercree -

Nurturing a feeling makes it proliferate. Choose wisely. Joy, kindness, love, & caring will illuminate your life.

Morrie Schwartz -

Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is still there. All the memories are still there. You live on- in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here.

David Vann - Aquarium

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

instantmiso - Where Tangents Meet

But like any friendship or relationship, everything starts off as a tiny sprout-or so my granny says. If you neglect or smother it, it will eventually wither. But when nurtured and cared for properly...it will bloom into something special.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Over-Soul

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

Bryant McGill - Voice of Reason

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

Mark Twain - How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at ea

Lisel Mueller - Alive Together

Now in the thriving season of lovewhen the bud relents into flower,your love turned absence has turned once more,and if my comforts fall soft as rainon her flutters, it is becauselove grows by what it remembers of love

T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Only nurture a broken heart that recognizes it, and is willing to put in the work of minding.

Nikki Rowe -

If you don't know what to do next take the oath that will enhance your soul and erase your ego, & from the quiet space inside yourself, you will know what to do.

Julia Glass - And the Dark Sacred Night

The older Kit gets, the less confident he feels judging other people as spouses or parents. These days, driving past the home of the Naked Hemp Society, he finds himself more curious than contemptuous about their easily ridiculed New Age ways. Why shouldn't they nurse their babies till age four? Why shouldn't they want to keep their children away from factory-farmed meats, from clothing soaked in fire-retardant chemicals, from dull-witted burned-out public school teachers whose tenure is all too

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient.

Manoj Arora - From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

A brilliant idea is like a baby in a mothers womb.You need to bring it out in the world, nurture it, feed it, grow it, till it becomes big enough to take care of itself.If you leave it at the stage of an idea itself, it is as good as non existent.

Anthony Biglan - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

While humans have the propensity to develop a suite of prosocial behaviors, they are also capable of developing antisocial behavior, engaging in substance abuse, experiencing depression, and bearing children at an early age...Young people who develop aggressive behavior tendencies are likely to develop problems with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; to fail academically; to have children at an early age;and to raise children likely to have the same problems.

Anthony Biglan - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

Anthony Biglan - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

Steven C. Hayes - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.

Anthony Biglan - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

Just as we have created a society in which it would be unthinkable to light up a cigarette in the Kennedy Center lobby, we can create a society where it is unthinkable that a child suffers abuse, fails in school, becomes delinquent, or faces teasing and bullying. We could have a society in which diverse people and organizations work together to ensure that families, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods are nurturing and that our capitalistic system functions to benefit everyone.

Anthony Biglan - The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

Humans have evolved levels of cooperation that are unprecedented among primate species. You can see it even in babies. Say you are playing with a baby and begin to put the toys in a box. If you point to one of the toys, the baby is likely to put it in the box (Liebal et al. 2009)... Human babies are more likely than other primates to follow another’s pointing or gaze. Thus, even before adults have socialized them, babies show tendencies to be in sync with the social behavior of others, to infer

Steve Goodier -

Children nurtured in kindness learn the value of understanding. Children taught to be self-sufficient, to respect others, to value education and to build life up rather than to tear it down will become adults capable of leading us to a brighter future. For (as Karl Menninger noted) what's done to children, they will do to society.

Charlotte Eriksson -

This year has taught me the simple craft of belief. I believe in the things I’ve nurtured and built this year. Slowly but carefully. Such as understanding, knowledge, passion, strength; the hundreds of songs I’ve written, the 365 poems, the books I’ve read and the miles I’ve run. The resolution to breathe, to meditate, to not harm my mind or body even when I’ve felt like it. 

Michael Bassey Johnson -

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

Uma Shanker -

The grass remains green only as long as you water it. Similarly, a relationship remains fresh only as long as you nurture it with love.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Nurture your great spirit for a great self.

Eda J. Vor - Lay Her Ghosts to Rest

It must be difficult to be a mother,” she continued thoughtfully. “To create and nurture and raise a tiny person, to invest all of your heart in it, only to have them grow up and not need you anymore. It must hurt to feel that kind of abandonment. To be forced to let go because of time and nature and the well-being of… both the child and the mother, I suppose?

Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has.

Michael Pollan - Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right here: in his soil, in his plants, even in himself...But

Miya Yamanouchi - Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.

Natalia Sanmartín Fenollera - The Awakening of Miss Prim

This was where she discovered that intelligence, this wonderful gift, grows in silence, not in noise. It was here too that she learnt that a human mind, a truly human mind, is nurtured over time, with hard work and discipline.

Rosemary Altea - Soul Signs: An Elemental Guide to Your Spiritual Destiny

There are many differing viewpoints on nature versus nurture, and there are those who believe that bad behavior can be excused and understood if a person doesn't know better. The theory that someone who has been abused as a child will go on to abuse their own children, and so on, because they don't know differently is widely held. But children know. We all know.Learned behavior. When a child is abused, he or she knows, even as it is happening, that it is wrong. I knew. I was abused. When a child