Author: Flourishing Team

Photo: Elle Neill Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them… – John Stuart Mill This is a rewritten version of...

Here is a speech you are unlikely to hear during Canada’s next election campaign: You know, kids are people too… they have rights. If they need a few beers or tequila shots after a...

Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different. – Jeremy Grantham This post...

Photo: Elle Neill “When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America’s three great contributions to civilization.”...

… there is no country and no people, I think, who can look forward to the age of leisure and of abundance without a dread. For we have been trained too long to strive...

Photo: Parthiv Kurup “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life …” – Samuel Johnson Andrew grew up in modest circumstances. When he was 10, having a piece of chocolate was...

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength...

Photo Credit: Elle Neill “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop” – Herbert Stein’s Law The 2nd half of 2015 has proven to be remarkably challenging for the global economy.  Many countries...

Photo: Denis Collette. Flickr Canadian landscapes. Creative Commons License. More and more, we seem to live multiple lives. Few people (and even fewer into the future) tread a linear path of education, career, family,...