Nurturance Quotes

#1. Just when he thinks he's adjusting to anxiety as a constant condition, Jake feels several internal organs shrinking.

Peter Blauner

#2. I tell my kids they are going to live to over 100.

Michael Douglas

#3. In my opinion, most organized religion does neither agentic service nor relational nurturance very well.

Richard Rohr

#4. Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

Stanley Hauerwas

#5. Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Augustus Y. Napier

#6. Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

Julia Cameron

#7. Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.

George W. Bush

#8. The highest priority for any government concerned with its own future and the peace of the world community ought to be the facilities it provides for the care and nurturance of young children.

Eda LeShan

#9. We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#10. After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#11. But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there's very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

Neesha Meminger

#12. Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

Richard Rohr

#13. In the past, men had projected their feminine qualities of emotions, nurturance, and sensitivity onto women. With the recent activation of the feminine centers represented by the asteroids, men have been pressured and encouraged to both "own: and develop these qualities.

Demetra George

#14. Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

Brenda Ueland

#15. I want to talk about happiness and well being, about those rare, unexpected moments when the voice in your head goes silent and you feel at one with the world.

Paul Auster

#16. While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

Carol Gilligan

#17. friend of mine says that every time I judge myself harshly, I draw a drop of blood from my heart. So easy does it!

Judy Collins

#18. Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#19. Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.

Ian Stewart

#20. One of the most important aspects of what makes us who we are is neither straight genes or straight environment but actually what happens to us during development.

Robert Winston

#21. The priority list is: 1. The Strength Group 2. Moral Self-Interest 3. Moral Nurturance It

George Lakoff

#22. 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.

Bell Hooks

#23. My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carol Moseley Braun

#24. No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.

Phil Jackson

#25. It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#26. In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak?

Carl Sagan

#27. Only love could create such conflict, such longing, such fear.

Anne Rice

#28. I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work or exercise; instead, make a list of things you love, from watching TV to hanging out with favorite people.

Martha Beck

#29. It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

Germaine Greer

#30. A little dancing never hurt anyone. Right?

Laura Thalassa