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• The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and the seeds of peace will be able to flourish. At the same time, every individual is responsible to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we have to take responsibility. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives

  Dalai Lama

  Spring, Responsibility, Compassion

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• It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Self, Survival, Groups

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.35, Cato Institute

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• A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

  Rowan Williams

  Media, Maintenance, Common

  "This media tribe disfigures public life" by Rowan Williams, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2005.

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

  Alistair Cooke

  Greek, Hollywood, Factories

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• 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.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Happiness, Mean, Healthy

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Mean, Doors, Inspire

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• The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Desire, Fleeting

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• Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

  Julian Baggini

  Might, Satisfaction, Identical

  "The secret to happiness? It's complicated" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

  Mao Zedong

  Art, Flower, School

  1957 Speech, Peking, 27 Feb.

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• Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Powerful, Technology, Ajax

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• The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from coming into existence

  Michael Medved

  Islamic, Israel, Existence

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 20, 2012.

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  Barnabe Barnes

  Men, Dust, World

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• By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief.

  John Woolman

  Country, Time, Grief

  John Woolman (1871). “The Journal of John Woolman”, p.156

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• The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

  Charles Sturt

  Successful, Causes, Importance

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• I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Remember, Scene, Whole

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• There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.

  Walter Lippmann

  Travel, Discovery, Soul

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• I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is visible in the external aspect of the place.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Littles, Improvement, Aspect

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.30

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• The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Long, People, Essentials

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• There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.

  Will Durant

  Past, Found, Absurdity

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.

  Cornel West

  Acceptance, Joy, Love Relationship

  "Like Foreigner, Cornel West Wants to Know What Love Is". www.chronicle.com. December 03, 2009.

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• Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.

  Ernest Sosa

  Soul, Succeed, Virtue

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.

  August Wilhelm von Schlegel

  Love, Axes, Solitude

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• Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Order, Ecosystems

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• Toxic thoughts leave no room for truth to flourish. And in the absence of truth, lies reign. Spend some time soaking in your favorite verses from Scripture tonight. The more we read God's truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we'll spend contemplating untruths and toxic thoughts.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Lying, Mind, Toxic

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Feb 19, 2016

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• Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

  Whitney M. Young

  Brother, Hate, Men

  "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.

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