Often your environment does not recognize the real you and therefore cannot acknowledge and nourish you.

Does purpose -- mine, yours, anyone's -- require someone to nurture it, or is it inherent in all of us?

I froze in the harsh northeastern winters and longed for the African sun, but my soul thawed from the warmth of the American people, whose kindness nurtured my evolution into a citizen of the world.

But behind every achievement exists the motivation which is at the foundation of it and which in turn is strengthened and nourished by the accomplishment of the undertaking.

This is why our families provide a critical measure of our character and the opportunity, again and again, to nurture it.