Quotes About Flourishing

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it. A

Life is not only an organization for survival; there is in life a prodigious flourishing of forms, the utility of which is only rarely attested to and that sometimes even constitutes a danger for the animal...Adaptation is not the canon of life, but a particular realization in the tide of natural production...It can be perfectly argued that life is not uniquely submitted to the principle of utility, and that there is a morphogenesis in the design of expression.

A flourishing human life is the best advertisement for the gospel, and the gospel in turn empowers us to become better people.

Morality involves how we think and act toward other sentient beings and whether our thoughts and actions are right (good) or wrong (bad) with regard to their survival and flourishing.

Morality involves how we think and act toward other moral agents in terms of whether our thoughts and actions are right or wrong with regard to their survival and flourishing.

The triumph of vegetation is total.

My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into it. It opens up spaces for political contestation and allows for the flourishing of new forms of politics to sit alongside its more conventional ones. Feminism does not need the stable unitary subject to guarantee its politics. It needs a deeper understanding of the political nature of subjectivity and of the dynamism of politics.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

But there is no McTheory when it comes to persuasion. There is no such thing as McApologetics, though it is significant that the nearest one-size-fits-all approach—the Four Spiritual Laws—was also created at the same time and in the same place as the first flourishing of McDonald's as we know it and the first theme park run by Walt Disney: 1950s California.

He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine, spreading its shoots over the garden.

I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.

I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.