Cultivation Quotes - Page 7

Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.

Charles R. Swindoll

Character, Order, Discipline

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On the other hand, the cultivation of the religious sentiment represses licentiousnessinspires respect for law and order, and gives strength to the whole social fabric, at the same time that it conducts the human soul upward to the Author of its being.

Daniel Webster

Religious, Hands, Order

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For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.

Robert C. Solomon

Falling In Love, Love Is, Laughing

Robert C. Solomon (2006). “About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times”, p.343, Hackett Publishing

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I believe the ultimate path to enlightment is the cultivation of gratitude. When you're grateful, fear disappears. When you're grateful lack disapears. You feel a sense that life is uniquely blessed, but at the same time, you feel like you're a part of everything that exists and you know that you are not the source of it. In that state you show up differently for the people around you. Just walking around you vibrate.

Tony Robbins

Gratitude, Blessed, Grateful

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It's in that tradition that we're here today, and we look to soup because there's no force on the globe that brings people together on a daily basis with the same consistency and manner than the cultivation, preparation and eating of food. Food affords us the opportunity to touch everyone in our community, to address the needs of all groups - food is the intersection of the most pressing issues of our time.

Sam Kass

Opportunity, Issues, People

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In the Middle East, bread is so essential to everyday life that word for it in Egyptian Arabic is aish, which means life. It's always been the staple grain. But the predicament is that the Fertile Crescent, where wheat cultivation began, has now become the part of the world most dependent on imported wheat.

Annia Ciezadlo

Mean, Everyday, World

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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Creativity is no less challenging or exciting when the mystery is stripped from the creative process. The most beautiful flowers grow under careful cultivation from common soil.

Herbert Simon

Beautiful, Flower, Creativity

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If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.

William Cecil Dampier

Lying, Men, Years

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The grounds on which golf is played are called links, being the barren sandy soil from which the sea has retired in recent geological times. In their natural state links are covered with long, rank bent grass and gorse. Links are too barren for cultivation: but sheep, rabbits, geese and professionals pick up a precarious livelihood on them.

Charles Walter Simpson

Golf, Sheep, Sea

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A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life.

Randolph Bourne

Personality, Needs, Power Of One

Randolph Silliman Bourne (1913). “Youth and Life”

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The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Emily Post

Imagine, Elegance, Slang

Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.58, Cosimo, Inc.

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From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides.

Confucius

Son, Roots, People

Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.359, Courier Corporation

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Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Spiritual, Ashes, Mouths

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Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful.

Jeff Myers

Caring, Adults, Mentoring

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The cultivation of Human Values alone is Education.

Sathya Sai Baba

Humans, Human Values, Values

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Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

Ozzy Osbourne

Fate, Cities, America

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The World Bank is the monopoly provider of poverty data and, partly due to a leadership change there, the World Bank's reporting has been heavily on the rosy side since about 2000. The Bank's cultivation of an upbeat picture affords a very interesting lesson in statistics and how you can, depending on which numbers you present and how you present them, create a more positive or more negative impression of the evolution of poverty.

Thomas Pogge

Data, Numbers, Interesting

Source: www.truth-out.org

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Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

Boris Sidis

Religious, Agency, Evil

Boris Sidis (1916). “The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases”

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Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Hatred, Systematic

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The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.

B. Alan Wallace

Buddhist, Intelligent, Thinking

"Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground Up: A Practical Approach for Modern Life". Book by B. Alan Wallace, 1993.

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Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization.

Llewellyn Rockwell

Crush, Art, Children

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There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

Washington Irving

Simple, Tree, Taste

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Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities.

Gautama Buddha

Evil, Mind, Deeds

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The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of
bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its
relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the
cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a
thousandfold more precious.

Gardner Murphy

Struggle, Views, Mind

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It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

E. F. Schumacher

Men, Envy, Greed

E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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