Cultivating Quotes

• Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 04, 2015

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• All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Numbers, Discipline

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• When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.

  Thubten Chodron

  Patience, Weed, Buddhist

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• The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

  Umberto Eco

  Knowledge, Intelligent, People

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

  Anil Ambani

  Change, Learning, Exercise

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• We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  God, Faith, Religious

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• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Happy, Discovery

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• The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That's why it's important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

  Libba Bray

  Garden, Mind, Cages

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• The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Missing, Creative, Way

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Children, Women

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• Don't shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Change, Passion

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 03, 2011

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  Jean Renoir

  Love, Art, Father

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• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Attitude, Gnosticism, Suffering

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• Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

  Nell Newman

  Mean, Generous Spirit, Mindfulness

  Nell Newman (2003). “The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live”, Villard Books

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• Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Love, Moving, Destiny

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• I have found that the greatest degree of inner peace comes from cultivating love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Inner Peace, Degrees

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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

  Beauty, Beautiful, Uplifting

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• Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, Attitude, Acceptance

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.82, Basic Books

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• You create a path of your own by looking within yourself and listening to your soul, cultivating your own ways of experiencing the sacred and then practicing it. Practicing until you make it a song that sings you.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Soul, Listening

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• Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Respect, Men, Self

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.45, Harmony

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• The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

  Horace Mann

  Weed, Men, Hands

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• Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences.

  Richard Davidson

  Responsibility, Optimism, Brain

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• . . . Cultivating good humor may be helpful in finding our own identity. Young people who are trying to find out who they really are often have concerns as to their ability to meet and cope with the challenges that confront them and that lie ahead. They will find that it is easier to ride over the bumps and come quickly to their own identity if they cultivate the good humor that comes naturally. It is important that we all learn to laugh at ourselves.

  James E. Faust

  Lying, People, Laughing

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