Surroundings Quotes
Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.
Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.
The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.
The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).
Recycling isn't going to save the world, but being conscious of it and your surroundings can.
The answers we're looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present - to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide.
I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.
There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.
Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.
In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.
I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.
I'm not in politics. I'm really not a public figure. But I'm trying to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.
The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.
Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.
I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.
Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.
Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.
It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.
If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.
My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality.
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.
I don't think many kids question their surroundings. Everything seems so permanent and inevitable growing up, even chaos.
I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.
The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.
I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.
A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.
However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.
