Quotes about Nurturing

Love will be our medicine.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Archaeological evidence now argues for the existence of a twenty-thousand-year period of history when men and women lived as equals, with neither sex dominating the other. The earth flourished. The so-called feminine qualities of compassion, nurturing, and nonviolence were shared by men and women alike and were the most vital elements of social structure. Women were revered as priestesses and healers.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, that we neglect to give them what we DID have growing up.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

She decided that the greatest gift she could give her children would not be wealth or material things, but rather the gifts she could leave in them. In their hearts, in their minds, in their attitudes toward life