Calm Surroundings Quotes

#1. It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Stephen Gardiner

#2. I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#3. When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

#4. Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

Barack Obama

#5. I found out very early that the more you want to hold people the more they want to be free.

Gordon Merrick

#6. Usually inner strength is respected - we get back what we put out.

Susan Jeffers

#7. Offering
I made a poem going
to sleep last night, woke
in sunlight, it was clean forgotten.
If it was any good, gods
of the great darkness
where sleep goes and farther
death goes, you not named,
then as true offering
accept it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

Bruce Lee

#9. So if it was just me, myself, and I until the end of time, I'd probably be okay with that.

Audrey Bell