Surroundings Quotes - Page 2

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

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

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

The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own.

That's half of what we do our daily lives - we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.

Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.

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

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.

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

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

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

If you can't change your surroundings, change your hair color.

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.