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Flourishing Quotes (page 4)

Havelock Ellis quote: "the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
the place where optism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock Ellis
Umberto Eco quote: "Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through..."
Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity. Umberto Eco
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs. Bill Nye
It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. Audre Lorde
In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creatures flourish together, content with the way they are, endlessly repeating themselves, endlessly renewed. when man interferes with the Taothe sky becomes filthy, the earth becomes depleted, the equilibrium crumbles, creatures become extinct. Lao Tzu
Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die. Will Durant
Adam Smith quote: "No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far..."
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable. Adam Smith
LXXIXWhen I die, I want your hands on my eyes. I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once more. LI want to feel the softness that changed my destiny. I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep. I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together, to continue to walk on the sand we walk on. I want what I love to continue to live, and you whom I love and sang above everything else. to continue to... Pablo Neruda
Frank Herbert quote: "But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish."
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. Frank Herbert
What do we see by [our enlightened age] which our ancestors saw not, and which at the same time is worth seeing? We see a hundred men hanged, where they saw one. We see five hundred transported, where they saw one. We see five thousand in the workhouse, where they saw one. . . . We see children perishing in manufactories, where they saw them flourishing in the fields. We see prisons, where they saw castles. We see masters, where they saw representatives. In short, they saw true men, where we... Thomas Love Peacock
Rita Dove quote: "I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How..."
I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessingswhen I didn't know their names? Rita Dove
William Shakespeare quote: "[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs..."
[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. William Shakespeare
Sing and rejoice ye children of the day and the light; for the Lord is at work in this thick night of darkness that may be felt: and the Truth doth flourish as the rose, and lilies do grow among the thorns and the plants atop the hills, and upon them the lambs doth skip and play. George Fox
Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished. F. Scott Fitzgerald
If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish. Jonas Salk

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