Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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.
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
I remember times when the whole music scene was just flourishing.
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.