When cultivating your garden, keep the soil healthy with…

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone.”

— M.L. Stedman

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

— Ronald Reagan

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a…

— George Washington

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very…

— Richard Sharp

Happiness is the choice I make today. It does not rest on my circumstances, but on my frame of mind...In cultivating the habits of…

— Marianne Williamson

Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.

— Jessica Mitford

One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

— Dalai Lama

You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.

— Steven Wilson

Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,…

— John Carroll

“I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes,…

— Ashley Ormon

Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our…

— Ajahn Chah

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step…

— Richard Powers

Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with…

— Pema Chodron

We can change society, change humanity by changing ourselves as individuals. By cultivating inner values, we can change our own lives and those of…

— Dalai Lama