Nurturing Quotes

• Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Time, Kindness, Fire

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.58, Conari Press

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• Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.

  James Van Praagh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Flower

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Aug 09, 2014

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• Nurturing has the ability to transform people's lives.

  John C. Maxwell

  People, Leader, Ability

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “A Leader's Heart: 365-Day Devotional Journal”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspiring, Children, Heart

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The loving personality seeks not to control, but to nurture, not to dominate, but to empower.

  Gary Zukav

  Love, Empowering, Personality

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 23, 2016

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• Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Vision, Management

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• Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Establishing Relationships, Process, Force

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• Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Dream, Opportunity For Success, Worry

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• Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Patience, Generosity, Quality

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• We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return.

  Nhat Hanh

  Unconditional Love, Forbidden Love, Energy

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Teachings on Love: Easyread Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Dream, Opportunity, Worry

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• If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

  Jane Fonda

  Pregnancy, People, Parent

  "Community-Based Doulas: A Good Investment in the Future" by Jane Fonda, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2009.

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• All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

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• Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

  Laozi

  Success, Weed, Dream

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• It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

  Deepak Chopra

  Emotional, Mindfulness, Attention

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• I learned from the git-go in the joint to get in touch with the soft, nurturing side of myself, the feminine side.

  Wesley Strick

  Men, Joints, Sides

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• Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to guide yourself back home when you lose your way. That's it. Everything else is your burning passion, your inspired mission, your job, your love-fueled hobby, etc. Those things are powerful and essential, but they're not your purpose. Your purpose is much bigger than that.

  Kris Carr

  Jobs, Powerful, Love You

  "The Myth of Finding Your Purpose" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2013.

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• Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

  Bell Hooks

  Spiritual, Self, Growth

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• A wound needs air in order to heal. We must talk about and expose those things which have hurt or harmed us in some way. Our wounds need nurturing care in order to heal. If we are to nurture and heal, we must admit that the wounds exist. We must carefully do what is necessary to help ourselves feel better.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Feel Better, Air

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 03, 2016

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• In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Self, Careers, Understanding

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud. Creativity is now something we can turn on and off like a faucet. It is an experience and expression in our lives that must be nurtured. This nurturing process means that creativity is at once a skill, an art, and a life-style.

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Appreciation, Art, Flower

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• For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

  Homer

  Ocean, Science, Earth

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• Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

  Joe Torre

  Heart, Winning, People

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• As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can.
  As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

  Alice Walker

  Giving Up, Spring, Flower

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.194, The New Press

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