The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds. — William Herschel Copy Share Image
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition. — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world. — David Kim Copy Share Image
“That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
“Flourishing depends on unconscious skills that serve as a pre-requisite for conscious accomplishments.” — David Brooks Copy Share Image
We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it’s not good for human flourishing. We want people to… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
If it is true that an influx of doubt and uncertainty actually marks periods of healthy growth in a science, then evolutionary… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large… — William Blake Copy Share Image
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There's still plenty of people who have this deep conviction that America is a Christian country and ought to say so in… — Diana L. Eck Copy Share Image
We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
“We are inundated with advice on where to travel to, but we hear little of why and how we should go, even… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We need healthy people to have a flourishing community, economy and way of living. — Mike Parson Copy Share Image
“For a plant to grow anywhere, it reveals that a human being needs just a space, and not anywhere special to flourish.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure.” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing.… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“Peace is not just a desired state of being for people, but also enables the flourishing of nature as well as human-created… — Norris Brock Johnson Copy Share Image
A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing… — Barnabe Barnes Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
