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• Always surround yourself with people who are better than you. If you're hanging around bad people, they're going to start bringing you down . . . But, if you surround yourself with good people, they're going to be pulling you up.

  Donny Osmond

  People, Surround Yourself, Pulling

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• Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock climb or hike or write a few short stories. Also, find good people and surround yourself with them. Most importantly, always believe you will, unequivocally.

  Sarah Silverman

  Believe, Passion, Writing

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• Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or, sadly, even ourselves. So we comply. We increase the speed. We live life in the fast lane because we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes and increased speed limits. The result? Too many of us are running as fast as we can, and an alarming number of us are running much faster than we can sustain.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Running, Husband, Live Life

  Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.63, Harper Collins

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• I think it's important to see that, as an audience member, because a lot of times you pass judgement on people, right off the bat, depending on whatever they're involved in or the people they surround themselves with, or something like that.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Thinking, People, Judgement

  "Megalyn Echikunwoke Talks Showtime’s HOUSE OF LIES, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, and NBC Pilot BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Desire demands only a constant attention to the unknown gravitational field which surrounds us and from which we can recharge ourselves every moment, as if breathing from the atmosphere of possibility itself. A life’s work is not a series of stepping-stones onto which we calmly place our feet, but more like an ocean crossing where there is no path, only a heading, a direction, which, of itself, is in conversation with the elements.

  David Whyte

  Ocean, Breathing, Feet

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• It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

  Adam Sandler

  Humor, People, Important

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• From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point of view of the infinite ignorance that surrounds us, the difference is not impressive. Indeed, from that point of view, the goat may have the better mind, for he is more congenially adapted to his place, and he would not endanger his species or his planet for the sake of an idea.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Ignorance, Animal

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• Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

  Jean Cocteau

  Light, Poetry, Roles

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

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• If you *stop* putting off homemaking until your hope of marriage develops into a reality, and *start* to develop an interesting home right now, it seems to me two things will happen: first, you will develop into the person you could be as you surround yourself with things that express your own tastes and ideas; and second, as you relax and become interested in areas of creativity, you will develop into a more interesting person to be with.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Home, Creativity, Reality

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we are here, and what will become of us. Whenever humans try to make sense of their experience, they create a story, and we use those stories to answer all the big questions of life. The stories come from everywhere--from family, church, school, and the culture at large. They so surround and inhabit us that we often don't recognize that they are stories at all, breathing them in and out as a fish breathes water.

  Daniel Taylor

  School, Breathing, Water

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• The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

  Larry Burkett

  Principles, Stewardship, Given

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• I insist on the truth. I surround myself with people who tell the truth.

  Shelby Lynne

  People, Telling The Truth

  "An everyday tale of country folk" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2001.

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• Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

  Eddie Myers

  Wisdom, Peace, Mind

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• Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

  Peter Greenaway

  Trying, Use, Chaos

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness.

  Wayne Dyer

  Graduation, People, Doers

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• Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

  Andre Breton

  Surrealism, Subjects, Objects

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• Even though we often mess up, most of us are doing the best that we know how with the circumstances that surround us.

  Richard Carlson

  Circumstances, Mess, Sweat The Small Stuff

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Surround yourself with positive people and situations, and avoid negativity.

  Doreen Virtue

  Positive, People, Negativity

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• Family matters. Family are the only people who will tell you when you're getting off the tracks a little. Surround yourself with people who love theLord, love themselves and love you, and you can't really fail.

  Amanda Michalka

  Inspirational, Love You, People

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• You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Order

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.17, GENERAL PRESS

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• Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

  George Carlin

  Family, Pet, Hobbies

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• Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• Does the human intellect, or "reason," really spring us free from our inherence in the depths of this wild proliferation of forms? Or on the contrary, is the human intellect rooted in, and secretly borne by, our forgotten contact with the multiple nonhuman shapes that surround us on every hand?

  David Abram

  Spring, Animal, Hands

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• I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.

  Rob Lowe

  Strong, Character, Successful

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I think you gotta have balls to be an Avenged fan sometimes. A lot of our fans get hated on just as much as us. To me Avenged fans aren't just fans of a band, they are fans of everything that surrounds it, like a life style. We live it, you live it. You go to the shows and you can feel it. It's a great experience and people that aren't involved will never understand. So they can stand on the side lines and talk, but we will continue to do just what makes us happy.

  M. Shadows

  Thinking, People, Style

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