Quotes About Flourishing

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its own image. By contrast, a society that feels confused or in decline often converts any event - however innocuous - into a weapon of self-laceration.

The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

I believe it is within our capacity that by the year 2051 that 51 percent of the human population will be flourishing. That is my charge.

An American parliamentary system with proportional representation wouldn't immediately or inexorably lead to a flourishing social democracy, but it would at least correct the overrepresentation of an ideological minority and cut down on intentional tactical economic sabotage.

When one has taken root, one puts out branches.

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

You cannot bring a fresh, new word about human flourishing and expect the old, established systems of oppression and power to stand by passively. Or, as Jesus put it, "You can't put new wine into old wineskins.

This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.

if we want to survive and flourish, humankind has little choice but to complement such local loyalties with substantial obligations toward a global community.

Weeds triumphant ranged

Happiness is commonly mistaken for passively experienced pleasure or leisure. That conception of happiness is good only as far as it goes. The only worthy object of all our efforts is a flourishing life. True happiness is a verb. It's the ongoing dynamic performance of worthy deeds. The flourishing life, whose foundation is virtuous intention, is something we continually improvise, and in doing so our souls mature. Our life has usefulness to ourselves and to the people we touch.

In civically flourishing societies, the people remember that the system is healthiest and most robust when power emerges from the bottom up and the middle out, not the top down. In such societies, the people recognize that it is not only fair that power be circulated widely; it is also wise.

The story of El Centro's creation and flourishing reminds us that civic power may not require a plan—but it does require a purpose.

The philosophical grail to shine analytical light on the conceptual darkness only distorts the forms of life otherwise flourishing there.

During the most flourishing times of Sidon and Tyre, the land of the Phoenicians was a perpetual apple of contention between the powers that ruled on the Euphrates and on the Nile, and was subject sometimes to the Assyrians, sometimes to the Egyptians.

The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.

The most oft-cited line of Newman's An Essay on the Development of Doctrine is situated in this context: "In a higher world it may be otherwise; but here below, to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." So indeed, Pope John's Newman-like image of the "flourishing garden of life" effectively holds off a stuffy traditionalism.

We're informed the Church must "update" its moral teachings to stay relevant, but then discover that a good many converts enter the Church precisely because her moral theology offers sanity, humanity, and a path to human flourishing.

Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.

The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

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

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