Surroundings Quotes

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness...

— Hugh Jackman

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

I try to be, like, hella sensitive to my surroundings.

— J.I.D

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

— Thomas Hardy

“A person becomes part of their surroundings.”

— Christie Watson

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

— Ralph Linton

“It's not the surrounding that has changed, it's us who changed.”

— Fatima Faisal

“Desire to dwell in a clean environment.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.

— Ellen G. White

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

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

The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the…

— Lisa Alther

It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that…

— Famke Janssen

It doesn't matter where you end up in life, just as long as you enjoy your surroundings and the people enjoying it…

— Nishan Panwar

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

— Gabrielle Reece

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact…

— Ivor Novello

Every plant has its fitness and must be placed in its proper surroundings so as to bring out its full beauty. Therein…

— Jens Jensen

Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside,…

— Peace Pilgrim

I find that through all my work, I really get to see and feel energy, health and vitality between people and their…

— Alexandra Stoddard

An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making…

— Mervyn Levy

We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of…

— Mike Crapo

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around…

— Emmanuel Mounier

The seed has no idea of being some particular plant, but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with…

— Shunryu Suzuki

Self-Made Men are those who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, or friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved…

— Frederick Douglass

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the…

— Fernando Pessoa

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life…

— Jane Jacobs

No matter how much you try and make your surroundings suitable for creativity, if the enviornment inside of you isn't creatively healthy…

— Gerard Way

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family…

— Wendell Berry

Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it…

— Ralph Ellison

The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the…

— James Howard Kunstler

“I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but I’m coming to the conclusion that if you…

— Charlotte Eriksson

From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical…

— Paige Bradley

After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the…

— Baruch Spinoza

Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware…

— James Small

The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with…

— B. C. Forbes

The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for…

— Edward Weston