Surroundings Quotes
328 Surroundings quotes by 276 unique authors
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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
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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
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If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.
— Dalai Lama
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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
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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
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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
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The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
— William James
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To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.
— David Whyte
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
— Dan Gable
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If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.
— Gautama Buddha
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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
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'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
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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
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...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
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... 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
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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
Who Wrote These Surroundings Quotes
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