Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society,… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a… — Gary Ryan Blair Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience.… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and… — William James Copy Share Image
“Growth is an unavoidable part of life. Whether we mean for it to happen or not, our bodies continually nourish and regenerate… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire;… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Cultivation is of no use for the attainment of Tao. The only thing that one can do is to be free of… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden,… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives over books,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
“Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
