Best Cultivation Words
135 Cultivation quotes by 114 unique authors
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want…
— John Ruskin
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I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The…
— Daniel Webster
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I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with…
— Bruce Chatwin
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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Here's the progression. Feminism won; you can have it all; of course you want children; mothers are better at raising children than fathers; of course…
— Susan J. Douglas
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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave…
— William James
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Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness…
— Dalai Lama
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You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
— Charles Spurgeon
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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we…
— Angelina Grimke
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One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
— Bruce Lee
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The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
— Novalis
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Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
— Seneca the Younger
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If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and…
— Woodrow Wilson
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We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their…
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it…
— Julius Sterling Morton
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The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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