Surround Quotes - Page 14

• It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Youth, Easy, Circumstances

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.239

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• Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

  Lisa M

  Radio, Surround Yourself, Turns

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• Children or babies learn to mimic the vibration of the adults who surround them long before they learn to mimic their words.

  Esther Hicks

  Baby, Children, Long

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.25, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Two, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

  Idries Shah

  Sleep, Men, Waking

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• I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

  Nate Berkus

  Believe, Home, Collecting Things

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• Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it renew your commitment to life, every day? I don't want to wait for death to be near to receive the beauty in my life. I want to be awed every day by the truth-pretty or painful-and let it open me to the beauty that surrounds me and draws me deeper and deeper into my own life.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Beauty, Commitment, Waiting

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• I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

  David McCullough

  Ignorance, Want, Mist

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough Library E-book Box Set: 1776, Brave Companions, The Great Bridge, John Adams, The Johnstown Flood, Mornings on Horseback, Path Between the Seas, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

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• Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

  Steven Levy

  Artist, Technology, Computer

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• You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

  Kenny Rogers

  Thinking, People, Done

  "American Morning", www.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle.

  Melody Beattie

  Prayer, Life Changing, Miracle

  Melody Beattie (2009). “More Language of Letting Go: 366 New Daily Meditations”, p.134, Hazelden Publishing

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• The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow ourselves to be still and know Him. In that silence, we are changed. We are calmed. We are illumined. Prayer is meant to dissolve the worldly focus, to dissolve our sense of a separate self, to help us detach from an insane world order. We pray that He might flood our minds. Prayer is like pouring hot water on an ice cube, melting the cold and encrusted thought forms that still surround our hearts.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Heart, Order

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• You will never see players from City surround the referee.

  Manuel Pellegrini

  Player, Cities, Referee

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• There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Appreciation, Two, Use

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.82, Stanford University Press

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• All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Humanity, Understanding

  "Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins". Book by Konrad Lorenz, 1973.

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• As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.

  Jane Rule

  Regret, Men, Diversity

  FaceBook post by Jane Rule from Jun 30, 2015

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• Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Ambition, Adventure, Light

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• [H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!

  Sarah Fielding

  Friendship, Heart, Names

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• Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us. Brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, grandparents and cousins can make a powerful difference in the lives of children. Remember that the expression of love and encouragement from an extended family member will often provide the right influence and help a child at a critical time.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Encouragement, Cousin, Brother

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• Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.

  Jeanne Elium

  Children, Grandma, Play

  Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.155, Celestial Arts

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• The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Psychological, Process, Results

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• I surround myself with inspirational quotations.  This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Motivational, Past, Careers

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.58, Random House

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• As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do. Not only that, they're going to push and fight for what you're trying to do.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Fighting, Trying, Directors

  "Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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• One thing that I'm really interested in is the kind of esoteric detail that surrounds these great figures. And Wikipedia is full of that kind of stuff, whether it's true or untrue. It staggers me: why, in the short space assigned to a person or an event, that kind of random information is there. To be honest, that's wonderful fuel for songwriting.

  Nick Cave

  Space, Wikipedia, Events

  "Nick Cave on the Evolution of His Music". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 28, 2014.

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