Surroundings Quotes

328 Surroundings quotes by 276 unique authors

Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and… — Louise Dickinson Rich
Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among… — Austin Kleon
If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance. — Dalai Lama
Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with… — David Niven
They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love… — Daniel Handler
Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less… — Jim Horning
The soul is stronger than its surroundings. — William James
To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. — David Whyte
I find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the… — Kristin Armstrong
The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as… — Ole Hallesby
Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a… — Jean Klein
In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one… — Hans Gmoser
My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings. — Dan Gable
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. — Gautama Buddha
Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings… — Evelyn Underhill
'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should involve these as… — Richard M. Nixon
The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make… — Richard M. Nixon
...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need… — Richard M. Nixon
... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community… — Wendell Berry
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene,… — Maria Montessori
Being present is the actor’s job. Being aware of your body, in space, and the emotions that are occurring inside, is essential. Well, quite simply,… — Sandra Oh
Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings. — Jaggi Vasudev
If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative,… — Dalai Lama
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human… — Werner Herzog

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