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• Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor. Such wonderful things surround you. What else are you looking for? Its all under the sea

  SebastiAn

  Ocean, Sea, Looks

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• After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Ambition, Years

  Diary entry on August 01, 1945. "Prelude to Leadership". Book by John F. Kennedy, 1995.

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• No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Intelligent, Air, Breathing

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.94, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.

  John Berger

  Stars, Night, Sky

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them.

  Po Bronson

  Powerful, Accomplish Your Goals, People

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• Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.

  Seraphim Rose

  Struggle, Heart, Choices

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• You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Running, Lying, Believe

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3822, e-artnow

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• Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Fall, Men, Cities

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Orestes to Electra, Act 2, 1943.

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• Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

  Dean Koontz

  House, Architecture, Ghost

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• There are three relations [between thee and other things]: the one to the body which surrounds thee; the second to the divine cause from which all things come to all; and the third to those who live with thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Three, Body, Causes

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.88, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

  Bell Hooks

  Happiness, Success, Perseverance

  "Bell hooks talks to John Perry Barlow". www.lionsroar.com. September 1, 1995.

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• Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Feelings

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• Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

  Glenn Hughes

  Love, Art, Fall

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• Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

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• My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Meaningful, Fields, Limits

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• You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

  Ann Brashares

  Pain, Trying, Surround Yourself

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.184, Penguin

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• Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Fifth Son: A novel”, p.54, Schocken

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• If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Self, People

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• The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, National Parks, Nostalgia

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press

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• Black people in the US are told all the time, from all aspects, that they're nothing, that they're less than. And of course that bears fruit, but no one wants to shoulder part of the blame. A lot of people here can't see around their own family's history. They don't want to see that where they come from and the people they surround themselves with might have played a role in all this. This is all part of our national myth about the individual. We think that a lack of success comes from the individual not working hard enough. A lot of people in this country really believe that.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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  In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

  Kate Spade

  Inspirational, New Year, Art

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• Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Respect, Men

  Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1989). “The trumpet of conscience”, HarperCollins

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• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  Karen Kain

  Support And Love, People, Giving

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• I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Missing, Problem, I Missed You

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.

  Sark

  Color, People, Sound

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