It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden.
This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong religious conviction, and secondly a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom.
Establish an atmosphere that energizes you. Some creative people flourish in confusion; others need to be free from interruption. Many prepare themselves for work by exercising to stimulate circulation; others meditate to quiet the chatter of the outer world.
My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.
We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.
Wives invariably flourish when deserted;. . . it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
I’ve spent the first half of my life studying and footnoting everything that can go wrong with the female body—and figuring out how to fix it. I’m dedicating the second half of my life to illuminating everything that can go right with the female body, including teaching women how to truly flourish.
Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.
Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish.
For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.
If you took a blue spruce tree and planted it in the desert, it would obviously perish. How do we forget that we too are living systems, and each of us have unique environments, needs, and conditions within which we flourish or wither?
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.