Cultivating Quotes
125 quotes by 104 authors
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Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people,…
— Nhat Hanh
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The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production…
— Vandana Shiva
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You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.
— Steven Wilson
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Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.
— Jonathan Haidt
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Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the…
— Sun Tzu
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One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.
— Dalai Lama
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
— Aberjhani
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative. Our training is…
— Rajneesh
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If you must have a rule to follow, I would suggest cultivating a dialogue with your inner voice... If you listen to the clues your…
— Jane Fulton Alt
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Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
— Vandana Shiva
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America…
— Aberjhani
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I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.
— Nhat Hanh
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to…
— Steve Pavlina
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I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to…
— Michel Gondry
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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
— Dalai Lama
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This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the…
— Indu Sundaresan
Who Wrote These Cultivating Quotes
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