Flourishing Quotes

• Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

  Jim Rohn

  Love, Family, Marriage

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 30, 2016

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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Equality, Society

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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• Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Solo, Endeavor

  Barbara Fredrickson (2010). “Positivity”, p.158, Oneworld Publications

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• Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  People, Feel Good, True Life

  Barbara Fredrickson (2009). “Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life”, p.17, Harmony

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• Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Fun, Creativity

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.

  James Van Praagh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Flower

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Aug 09, 2014

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• In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.

  Shimon Peres

  Creativity, Technology, Land

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• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

  Virginia Satir

  Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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• The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Keys, Quests, Mental Health

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teacher, Commitment, Self

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• Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

  T. B. Joshua

  Trials, Soil

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• Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

  Isaac Barrow

  Smile, Serenity, Fading

  Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works of Isaac Barrow, ed. by A. Napier”, p.345

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• It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

  Lawrence Klein

  Enthusiasm, Study, Surprise

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• If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.

  David Sobel

  Love, Inspirational, Children

  "Fighting Climate Change Through ‘Nature Connectedness’" by Nancy Shulins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

  Harold Prince

  Musical, Age, Golden

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• The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Time, Cost, Pruning

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• Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

  William Blake

  Race, Painting, Proportion

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.201, Routledge

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• To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

  David Korten

  Life, Inspiring, Money

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• When schools flourish, all flourishes.

  Martin Luther

  Education, Learning, School

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• ...It's more important than ever that we find new ways to cultivate curiosity - because our careers, our happiness, and our children's flourishing all depend upon it.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Children, Careers, Curiosity

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• I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, Self, People

  "Social Animal" by David Brooks, www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Power, Technology, Political

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dying, Novelists, Way

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail”, p.304, Vintage

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• A woman in the presence of a good man, a real man, loves being a woman. His strength allows her feminine heart to flourish. His pursuit draws out her beauty. And a man in the presence of a real woman loves being a man. Her beauty arouses him to play the man; it draws out his strength. She inspires him to be a hero.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Inspirational, Strength, Romantic

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• For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Men, History, Evil

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