Surroundings Quotes · Page 5

Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

— Gautama Buddha

“Create and maintain a beautiful environment and surroundings in which to live.”

— Bryant McGill

Family and the natural surroundings played a big role in shaping my values.

— Gabrielle Reece

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

— Henrik Ibsen

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

— Gary Snyder

A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

— Anonymous

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

— Ian Mcewan

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

— Marilu Henner

With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship…

— Jeffrey Hunter

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I think to make your home as comfortable as possible is so important. There’s something really interesting about that as a trend,…

— Aerin Lauder

I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to…

— Chinua Achebe

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon…

— William James

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is…

— Luther Burbank

He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings.…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and…

— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your…

— Anonymous

Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good…

— Herbert Spencer

I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my…

— Edith Wharton

I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country.…

— Jessie Redmon Fauset

Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship…

— R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do…

— Ross Bleckner

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the…

— Jane Hamilton

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I…

— Vincent Van Gogh

When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings.

— DJ Khaled

You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different.

— Michael Owen

I'm comfortable in my own skin and surroundings. I don't think I get overshadowed by my husband or his personality.

— Gauri Khan

However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

— Kirby Wright

I am not a city guy; I like peaceful surroundings and maybe a walk around a lake.

— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

— Orison Swett Marden

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be…

— Bill Bailey

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

— Joel S. Goldsmith

I had the most amazing childhood in the natural surroundings of Assam.

— Victor Banerjee

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

— Gautama Buddha

A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.

— Michael Klim

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

— The Weeknd

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

— David Abram

No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.

— Tim McCarthy