While slight attention to the soul can go a long way, it isn't enough to maintain the active life and give the soul mere morsels.
Thomas Moore The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Categories: self-nurture balance soul

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.
Sark The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: change self-nurture creativity joy

Learned that craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.
Judith Jamison The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: creativity self-nurture openness

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animals rhythm of rest and activity.
Thomas Moore The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Categories: self-nurture soul balance

To be happy requires knowledge about how to achieve happiness (i.e. wisdom) and hard work and self-discipline to put that knowledge into practice.
Dennis Prager Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual
Categories: happiness balance self-discipline self-nurture

In a culture that has generally lost sight of the soul and has given most of its attention to the heroic and the ambitious, these values of the soul may appear more detrimental than advantageous. Yet it's clear that even in business, when soul appears in the form of emotional distress, symptomatic behavior, or failure in morale, work suffers and the economics of the business declines. An enchanted life is good for business, even though it requires a considerable turnabout in values and vision.
Thomas Moore The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
Categories: soul work balance self-nurture

Experience has taught me that we have to take care of ourselves from the outside in as well as from the inside out. In other words, we need to take care of our internal health as well as our physical appearance, and our mental and spiritual well-being. You may think I'm stating the obvious, but I think the reason so many programs fail is that they focus on one body part at a time instead of treating the whole person.
Julian Whitaker, MD Shed Ten Years in Ten Weeks
Categories: spirituality inner peace self-nurture holistic wellness

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Charles Darwin The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: relaxation reading self-improvement self-nurture music art

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by
Don Miguel Ruiz The Four Agreement : A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom a Toltec Wisdom Book
Categories: perfectionism self-love self-nurture self-abuse judgementalism

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Louise Driscoll Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: dreams growth self-improvement vision self-nurture

You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham Simple Abundance
Categories: self-awareness self-knowlege self-nurture character authenticity

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults.
Horace The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: self-nurture patience change growth perfectionism

When you can lovingly be present to yourself, your presence to others takes on a deeper quality also.
MacRina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels
Categories: self-acceptance self-nurture self-care authenticity service ministry

The soul, for me, is everything in life. It is in all the beauty as well as in all the agony.
Marion Woodman from the essay "Soul Moments" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: soul beauty pain self-awareness self-nurture spirituality

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., from the essay "Windows of the Soul" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: self-nurture soul joy happiness peace contentment serenity

Everything in life can be nourishing. Everything can bless us, but we've got to be there for the blessing to occur. Being present with quality is a decision we are invited to make each day.
MacRina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels
Categories: nurture blessing present focus presence choice

You don't have to do everything and be everything for everyone else all time. If you think you can't possibly do one more thing without screaming or crying, you're probably right.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: stress anxiety perfectionism supermom self-nurture balance priorities

There is that part of ourselves that feels ugly, deformed, unacceptable. That part, above all, we must learn to cherish, embrace, and call by name.
MacRina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels
Categories: self-acceptance self-nurture self-care weakness defects insecurity insecurities

The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational.
Macrina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels
Categories: life stress grace present appreciation nurture miracles

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli Light from Many Lamps
Categories: self-nurture growth learning education wisdom belief hero

...because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
Thomas Moore The Education of the Heart
Categories: soul spirituality everyday daily routine self-nurture self-realization

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.
Lawrence LeShan Meditating to Attain a Healthy Body Weight
Categories: promises self-esteem self-nurture self-neglect integrity wellness health

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Rabbi Harold Kushner in the essay "God's Fingerprints on the Soul" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: perspective vision good truth gratitude attitude soul self-nurture

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: exercise work physical soul nurture spirituality meditation balance

What's vital about our creative process is that we learn to use it, to nurture it and express it in our daily lives.
C. Diane Ealy The Woman's Book of Creativity (The Business of Life)
Categories: creativity growth change self-improvement self-nurture talents ability self-expression

For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
Robert Fulghum from the essay "Pay Attention" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: intentions habits attitude mood anger grumpiness soul self-nurture

You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output -- how much you produce -- not in terms of the quality of your life experiences...To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., from the essay "Windows of the Soul" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: self-nurture life soul work happiness balance self-esteem growth change

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment...A man should learn to detect and foster that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within far more than the luster of the whole firmament without. Yet he dismisses without notice his peculiar thought because it is peculiar. The time will come when he will postpone all acquired knowledge to this spontaneous wisdom, and will watch for this illumination more than those who watch for morning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: self-confidence self-esteem wisdom knowledge originality creativity thought conformity self-nurture instinct

Some tension is necessary for the soul
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. Handbook for the Soul
Categories: personal growth change soul love healing forgiveness service serve self-nurture

Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Barbara Sher Live the Life You Love : In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons
Categories: praise growth self-confidence nurture nurturing parenting relationships marriage self-esteem leadership

Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Donald A. Laird The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability talent mentorship leadership encouragement nurture blame criticism growth development

The Checklist of Change``
1. Take your time.``
2. Arrange temporary structures.``
3. Don't act for the sake of action.``
4. Recognize why you are uncomfortable.``
5. Take care of yourself in little ways.``
6. Explore the other side of change.``
7. Get someone to talk to.``
8. Find out what is waiting in the wings of your life.``
9. Use this transition as the impetus to a new kind of learning.``
10.Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
William Bridges Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life
Categories: patience structure change transition action self-care self-nurture exploration support self-awareness learning

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: stress anxiety worry tension self-care self-nurture rituals journaling meditation prayer journals

...self-contempt never inspires lasting change.
Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies
Categories: self-nurture self-acceptance self-esteem self-hatred fat diet body image anorexia bulimia compulsive dieting binging self-destructive behaviors

Knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: knowledge learning education wisdom soul self-improvement self-nurture growth spirituality growth change

I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.
Edward Young The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: lifestyle responsibility choice materialism possessions greed values integrity character truth gratitude attitude self-nurture happy joy fulfillment meaning purpose