Nurture Quotes

“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.”
― Marvin J. Ashton

“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“How power is used in organizations determines whether it unites us with trust or divides us with fear”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself.”
― Marilee Strong, A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

“MOTHER IS WATER

I wish I could
Shower your head with flowers
And anoint your feet with my tears,
For I know I have caused you
So much heartache, frustration and despair –
Throughout my youthful years.
I wish I could give you
The remainder of my life
To add to yours,
Or simply erase
The lines on your face,
And mend all that has been torn.
For next to God,
You are the fire
That has given light
To the flame in each of my eyes.
You are the fountain
That nourished my growth,
And from your chalice –
Gave me life.
Without the wetness of your love,
The fragrance of your water,
Or the trickling sounds of
Your voice,
I shall always feel
thirsty.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Fairness is a leadership superpower. ”
― Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction

“Fear is the fruit of powerlessness leading stealthily to exhaustion or aggression. Instead of sheltering and nourishing fear, we must nurture our imagination to foster thus and so sharing and connecting. (“Swimming or sinking")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.”
― H Raven Rose, Shadow Selves

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

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

“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 wildness is more a quality than a place, and though humans can't manufacture it, they can nourish and husband it...
The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery.”
― Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education

“Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“LOVE IS A FLOWER

Treat your relationship
As if you are growing
The most beautiful sacred flower.
Keep watering it,
Tend to the roots,
And always make sure
The petals are full of color
And are never curling.
Once you neglect your plant,
It will die,
As will your relationship.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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

“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.”
― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

“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 is treated unfairly in any way, he or she knows that it is wrong. I knew. I was treated unfairly. And when a child is treated with love and affection, he or she knows that it is right. I knew. I saw how other kids were treated with love and affection by their parents. I knew. My soul cried out to me and told me so. We all know. We all know right from wrong. Our souls cry out to us and tell us so. And we decide, we make our choices, and we are responsible for those choices. We, no one else but we, decide.

Anger, hurt, pain, humiliation, fear, dread, confusion-all these emotions we choose. De we hold on to our anger, our pain and humiliation, and hit back, or do we strive to understand that we can do better?”
― Rosemary Altea, Soul Signs: An Elemental Guide to Your Spiritual Destiny

“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.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul

“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 each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.”
― Mark Twain, How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women

“It is easier to pluck a flower than to nurture it; which is why some would prefer to destroy your talents than nurture them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“History and man made each other.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Nurturing a feeling makes it proliferate. Choose wisely. Joy, kindness, love, & caring will illuminate your life.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul”
― Alfred Austin

“Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
― Alexander Pope, Moral Essays

“The way our world turns out for good or evil has its roots in our children. Our future society, its people, its spirituality, and peace will depend on the outcome of the future leaders we are currently raising.”
― Michael E. Coones, Commander Courage: and the Forgotten Books of Darkness

“If you want to nurture a forest, plant a wolf.”
― Katherine Rundell, Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

“Myth 1: Infants don’t remember anything, so experience in infancy doesn’t really matter.
Reality: The infant brain has a huge capacity for memory. Memories from infancy are stored in the brain as implicit memory, which makes up the emotional brain, the unconscious mind, and the foundation for lifelong mental and physical health.
Myth 2: Responding to cries spoils an infant or teaches an infant to be dependent.
Reality: Responding reliably strengthens a baby’s emotional brain circuits, helps them grow confidently independent, and gives them the gift of stress regulation for life.
Myth 3: Babies can and need to learn to self-soothe, which means go from a state of high stress to a state of safety on their own.
Reality: Babies cannot self-soothe because they do not have the brain parts to do so until way beyond infancy.
Myth 4: Babies are resilient, so experience in infancy doesn’t matter.
Reality: Experience in infancy matters. It interacts with genes to influence mental health.
Myth 5: We can’t make a difference to our baby’s mental health outcomes if our baby inherits mental health genetics and intergenerational trauma through epigenetics.
Reality: Nurture makes an impact on inherited DNA and epigenetics to reduce or silence mental health effects.
Myth 6: Everyone falls in love with and knows what to do with their baby right away.
Reality: Lots of time touching, smelling, and looking into your baby’s eyes slowly builds your love, knowledge, and relationship with your baby.
Myth 7: Having a baby impairs your brain function.
Reality: Having a baby changes your brain to give you nurturing superpowers.
Myth 8: Being with my baby is doing nothing.
Reality: Being with my baby is vital brain-building, circuit-sculpting, cycle-starting activism for my baby’s future.
Myth 9: Only pay attention to your baby’s stress and emotions when there’s a reason for them.
Reality: All of your baby’s stress and emotions need to feel welcome and safe.
Myth 10: Since my baby will be with a grandparent, a nanny, or at daycare, I should reduce my care at home to prepare them.
Reality: Providing my baby with as much nurture as possible when we are together is what they need to build their brain.
Myth 11: You need to buy things for your baby’s brain development.
Reality: Your presence is the key to your baby’s brain development.
Myth 12: I need swings, seats, and containers to take care of my baby. My baby needs lots of classes and socialization to thrive.
Reality: The sensory experiences from my body are the only thing my baby needs.
Myth 13: I should feed my baby on a schedule.
Reality: Feed your baby when their body is experiencing physiological signals of hunger and showing hunger cues.
Myth 14: Breastfeeding or body feeding past six or twelve or twenty-four or thirty-six months is extra, spoiling, or for no reason.
Reality: Breastfeeding or body feeding at six or twelve or twenty-four or thirty-six months is brain-building and nurturing.
Myth 15: Holding a baby is doing nothing.
Reality: Holding a baby is seriously hard and brain-building work.
Myth 16: Newborn babies are happy with a swaddle, hat, pacifier, and bassinet.
Reality: Newborns are happy on someone’s skin, chest-to-chest, covered by a blanket—no swaddle, hat, pacifier, or bassinet needed.
Myth 17: Babies’ stress and emotions don’t matter and can be ignored.
Reality: Babies feel transformational stress and a huge range of emotions that influence how their brains and bodies develop.
Myth 18: If we respond to our crying, clinging babies, we teach them that that behavior is good, so they learn to cry and cling more.
Reality: When we respond to crying and clinging, babies cry less, and we build the infant brain to be more independent later.
Myth 19: There’s no difference if I hold my crying baby; they’re crying anyway.
Reality: Holding my crying baby provides a nurture bath to their brain regardless of how long they cry...”
― Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD

“When you begin to see the Power of
Loving your Mind, Body and Soul
You will build up the Courage to say No
to Unserving habits Because we
Protect and Nurture what we Love
We Allow what we Love to Flourish!”
― Rhys Blanco, Affirmations for Glowing skin