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
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence. — Noam Chomsky 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
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing. — Julian Baggini 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
Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. — Felix Rohatyn Copy Share Image
By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The aspiration of society is the flourishing of its members, this report gives evidence on how to achieve societal well?being. It's not… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
German businesspeople have invested a great deal in our country, and trade is flourishing. We want to speed up economic cooperation. Your… — Nguyen Minh Triet Copy Share Image
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the LORD is upright:… — Bible Copy Share Image
The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have… — David Pryce-Jones Copy Share Image
“Worst of all is when one encounters zombie churches. Because every church is built and sustained by volunteers, almost every church was… — Andy Crouch Copy Share Image
“We long for experiences “of profound connection with others,” he writes, “of deep understanding of natural phenomena, of love, of being profoundly… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
“There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Develop flourishing schools … The purpose of the education system should be to create capable and emotionally well-rounded young people who are… — Nic Marks Copy Share Image
“The origins of any productive system seem to be traceable to conditions in which the self-interest driven purposes of individuals are allowed… — Butler Shaffer 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
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
“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
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
