#nurture

There are a lot of people who influenced me, nurtured me, helped me along the way. But I can just recall looking back, the first time I got my baseball glove. Put it on the wrong hand, all those kind of things. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#back #baseball #first #first time #glove

There are many differing viewpoints on nature versus nurture, and there are those who believe that bad behavior can be excused and understood if a person doesn't know better. The theory that someone who has been abused as a child will go on to abuse their own children, and so on, because they don't know differently is widely held. But children know. We all know. Learned behavior. When a child is abused, he or she knows, even as it is happening, that it is wrong. I knew. I was abused. When a child is treated unfairly in any way, he or she knows that it is wrong. I knew. I was treated unfairly. And when a child is treated with love and affection, he or she knows that it is right. I knew. I saw how other kids were treated with love and affection by their parents. I knew. My soul cried out to me and told me so. We all know. We all know right from wrong. Our souls cry out to us and tell us so. And we decide, we make our choices, and we are responsible for those choices. We, no one else but we, decide. Anger, hurt, pain, humiliation, fear, dread, confusion-all these emotions we choose. De we hold on to our anger, our pain and humiliation, and hit back, or do we strive to understand that we can do better? ↗

— Rosemary Altea

#nature #nurture #right #spiritual #anger

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you. ↗

— Mike Murdock

#each #nurtures #strength #weakness #within

A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#dream #nurture #truth #dreams

She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#nurture #self-love #self-loving #love

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blueprints #child #definitely #dreams #enabled

I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. ↗

— David Duchovny

#actor #feel #granted #hard #i

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#away #company #developed #disposable #employee

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#begin #cultivated #nurtured #our #people

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#born #disturbed #environments #nurtured #religions