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Quotes About Flourish

Ted was on a roll
~ Robert D. Keppel
Over time, I came to formulate my purpose as providing contexts for people to flourish .
~ Robert Kegan
When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish.
~ Leonardo Boff
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
~ Paul Johnson
My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.
~ Murray Bookchin
Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?
~ John Piper
When all your energies are brought into harmony, your body flourishes. And when your body flourishes, your soul has a soil in which it can blossom in the world. These are the ultimate reasons for energy medicine—to prepare the soil and nurture the blossom.
~ Donna Eden
Use plants to bring life.
~ Douglas Wilson
Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.
~ Rumi
Men flourish in an atmosphere of praise, encouragement, and positive support. Conversely, criticism kills a man's spirit and is like emotional kryptonite to him.
~ Jimmy Evans
What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment.
~ Joan Acocella
It's been a pleasure to see female comedians be prominent and flourish - like Kate McKinnon's Rudy Giuliani impressions, which are uncanny in their precision.
~ Debra Granik
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.
~ Rebecca Solnit
When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
~ Russell Baker
But I think I cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the innate sovereignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and reducing the possessed. -- Barbara Kingsolver writes, 'It's going to take the most selfless kind of love to do right by what we cherish and give it the protection to flourish outside our possessive embrace'.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the innate sovereignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and reducing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone and walked each day to see them. Barbara Kingsolver writes, "It's going to take the most selfless kind of love to do right by what we cherish and give it the protection to flourish outside our possessive embrace".
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others. Being among the sisters provides a visible manifestation of what a community can become when its members understand and share their gifts. In reciprocity, we fill our spirits as well as our bellies
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.
~ Lou Holtz
What happens when a sin is committed? Usually the sinner flourishes.
~ Rumer Godden
Don't wait for things to turn around, and then you'll have a good attitude. You have to be your best where you are. God doesn't have to bring you out of the trouble; He can cause you to flourish in the trouble.
~ Joel Osteen
Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.
~ Saul Alinsky
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
~ Anonymous
Our freedom is a personal freedom only when, in it and through it, our persons may flourish, but that is so only in love.
~ Anthony Esolen