How to Flourish: 17 Quotes On Living, Being, and Doing

Love this collection of quotations. Thanks!

All is flux, nothing stays still
So if flux flux everything stays still

Great site! I'll visit this often to get some inspiration. We all can use daily inspirations on flourishing.

Excellent and thought provoking! I'm going to keep this list close to the monitor so I can check it out often!

Thanks Charlie.

Who doesn't love a good quote? The Gandhi quote might be used often but doesn't weaken it's power. So powerful.

Love Einstein quotes..... Nice List.

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim >> if you listen to yourself and not others.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance (trying to get free stuff in the future); the wise grows it under his feet (can’t afford stuff to dream like the above). >> follow the herd.

Fabulous quotes, lets here some more soon, best wishes to all...

Great quotes. A few well spoken or written words can truly inspire.

One of my favorites...

"Best things in life aren't things"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmpBczSPdw8

Gandhi's quote, "“You must be the change you want to see in the world" is one of my life quotes.

It's better to be something than to talk about it. Great quotes Charlie.

We all have fallen many times even though standing is vital life causes crash an burn.

Life is a lesson learned so sleeping at the wheel will cause no growth just you being a crash test dummy.

If there is a quote not understood it is most likely the person is lacking knowledge or experience.

"Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today." James Dean.

Incredibles . Wise sayings and very enlightening.

This was the one that hit home, “You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell

There is no way we could have predicted, or chose, the life experience we have had over the past 4 years. However, I wouldn't go back and change a thing now!

Blessings,
Ron

This is the best one I have seen ... thanks for this ... “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else” – Judy Garland

七転び八起き - “Fall seven times; stand up eight.”

This is my describes my life philosophy very well.

In the original Japanese sense: if you fail or bad things happen, you can grow stronger.

"No one is going to hit as hard as life. Life will beat you to your knees and it will keep you there permanently if you allow it. It's not how hard you can hit. It's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done." -Rocky Balboa

very good

About the seven times quote, I'd like to offer a little insight. It is actually a quote from Dogen Zenji, a fifth century Zen master. I heard it referenced in a Dharma discourse about perseverance. It is about an attitude of mind; it is not a literal mathematical equation. True perseverance is getting up more than we are knocked down, even if that does not make logical sense.

not half bad

Wonderful quotes!

Referencing the first one...if you fall seven times...wouldn't it only be possible to get up seven times? You cannot stand without having fell, therefore, fall seven times, get up seven. Just saying.

that's definitely food for thought

Wow - these are great! I have seen some of them, but a few that I never seen! Thanks for the inspiration!

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch

(... except when the sun stops shining, at which point a friend is a good thing to have.)

Brilliant quotes here, because of my background I particularly like the Chinese proverb.

For almost anything in life there is always a better time to do it that has long gone. The art is to identify those moments as they happen. A rare skill...

Thanks!

The Roosevelt quote really sums things up for me. Someone mentioned it yesterday to me as well. Kind of amazing I'm seeing it again today!

Very interesting. Some fantastic quotes there.
“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else” – Judy Garland. That is one of my favorites.
Thanks so much for sharing!

My all time favorite is "Become who you are". It turns out that it is from Pindar but it is Nietzsche who built up on it with his concept of "amor fati".

It makes a lot more sense than all the "you can become whatever you want" creed that seems to be trend in the last decade.

I want to study more knowledges from this website to promote myself.

A great collection of quotes but the first one (“Fall seven times; stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb) does not make sense to me. How can anyone stand up more times than they fall?

I like this one:“ Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” Alexander Hamilton

Great set of quotes. Keep sharing. Many Blessings!