Quotes of Cultivating - somelinesforyou

“ By cultivating the beautiful, we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. ”

- Vernon Howard

“ Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination. ”

- Stephen Vizinczey

“ 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

“ I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity. ”

- Andrew Linzey
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