Quotes About Flourishing

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We have arrived in the 21st century with evolutionary baggage, and a fair bit of intellectual confusion. Let us inderstand the baggage, in order to reduce the confusion, and increase our odds of moving forward with maximal human flourishing.

The flourishing of the whole local and foodie scene is dependent on a policy background of liberalisation, deregulation and privatisation.

After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.

The reality is the three gulf carriers - Emirates, Qatar and Etihad - are forces with which to be reckoned. Strategic investments by co-operative governments have given them large fleets and huge airports. They have created a flourishing environment while established carriers languish.

What all these stories show is that no law of nature forces native animals to prefer their natural foods, or even to recognize them. Some do (say koalas on gum leaves) but many don't. A currawong guzzling grapes might not look quite natural to us, but the bird doesn't see it that way. By nature it is an opportunist. For our native wildlife, the foreign plants and animals flourishing in Australia today afford untold opportunities too good to pass by.

His abiding belief was that 'a prosperous Ireland will mean a united Ireland. With equitable taxation and flourishing trade our North-East countrymen will need no persuasion to come in and share the healthy economic life of the country.

It is reasonable to expect that leading a divine conspiracy will require journalists, writers, artists, and scholars to carefully, accurately, and courageously expose the follies of our social institutions in government, business, religion, art, economics, engineering, medicine, law, finance, security, and education. This is where our Christian universities play perhaps the central role, if administrating the common flourishing is to occur in any meaningful way.

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.

There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away.

Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

she is now dedicating her life to helping women truly flourish by learning how to enhance all that can go right with their bodies. Dr. Northrup is a leading proponent of medicine that acknowledges the unity of mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Internationally known for her empowering approach to women's health and

Si un divorce est la fin d'un mariage en tant qu'institution. Il n'a pas été créé pour détruire le mariage puisqu'il ne serait pas nécessaire si le mariage n'existait pas. En ce sens, comme bien des auteurs l'ont montré, même la fréquence des divorces peut être interprétée non comme un signe que l'institution du mariage est malade, mais au contraire comme un signe qu'elle est florissante. (p. 122)

We are increasingly abandoning Aristotle's view of paideia—learning and habituating virtues for personal flourishing and the common good—in favor of technical-instrumental education leading to private wealth for some, argues philosopher Richard Eldridge: "to abandon the cultivation of virtues and instead to teach only in order to produce measurable outcomes is to capitulate to an individualist culture of instrumental control and private satisfactions."44

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

The gospel impacts the way we do our work in ways that hopefully brings a greater flourishing to our world.

Morality is not first and foremost about restriction and constraint. It's about human flourishing. It's also about the deepest sort of happiness. And it's about living a good life, which is, in fact, the best life. It's all about what you honor, cultivate, do, and become. It's common to think of any rules and structures

Ein Nichts waren wir, sind wir, werden wir bleiben, blühend. die Nichts-, die Niemandsrose.

Living well is an art that can be developed.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

Alas, there truly are conspirators in this world, flourishing wherever light doesn't shine. Moreover, they developed a great technique to distract from their own plots – they help spread a stinging miasma of paranoid ravings that genuine schemes can hide behind!

Such people there are living and flourishing in the world - Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made

Yo hago aquí el papel para ustedes de una válvula de escape de la vida aniquiladora de la burguesía de clase media. Sé que da miedo salir de uno mismo, pero todo lo que es nuevo asusta. Aunque la muchacha anónima de la historia sea tan antigua que podría ser una figura bíblica. Ella era subterránea y nunca había florecido. Miento: ella era hierba.

Men flourish only for a moment.