Quotes About Our Surroundings

#1. We are partly instrumental in deciding what we perceive by selecting what is significant for us.
Two people can be present in the same room and yet experience it quite differently. This is because we contribute our own meaning or our own interests when we perceive our surroundings.

Jostein Gaarder

#2. Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Brian Greene

#3. Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

Erica Jong

#4. The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water?

Richard M. Nixon

#5. The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings ... The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings ... It's something we make inside ourselves.

Corrie Ten Boom

#7. Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings.

T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

#8. knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings

Sunday Adelaja

#9. God gave each of us a soul, which is a candle that He gives us to illuminate our surroundings with His light," the Rebbe taught at a 1990 worldwide Chanukah satellite linkup. "We must not only illuminate the inside of homes, but also the outside, and the world at large.

Joseph Telushkin

#10. Miracles begin within us and then affect our surroundings.

Reinhard Bonnke

#11. It.
Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#12. Our goals are not achieved if all our energy given to us to achieve the goal and self-actualization is directed towards being accepted by our surroundings and to meet their requirements

Sunday Adelaja

#13. We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Amber Valletta

#14. Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The

Eva Hoffman

#15. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

Okakura Kakuzo

#16. All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

Thomas Mann

#18. The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world of material things and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things.

Ole Hallesby

#19. The smartphones that distract us from our surroundings also distract us from the fact that our surroundings are strangely old:

Peter Thiel

#20. I suppose everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.

H.G.Wells

#21. All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear.

Max Heindel

#22. Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. Our religion should not be a shield behind which we hide from the world but a driving force that inspires us to innovate and contribute to our surroundings. This is the true spirit of Islam.

Basmah Bint Saud

#23. Our brains are bombarded by something like eleven million pieces of data - that is, items in our surroundings that come at all of our senses - at once. Of that, we are able to consciously process only about forty

Anonymous

#24. We must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth need not and will not be deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings.

Richard M. Nixon

#25. If we forget what used to be, then we've lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

Maya Lin

#26. A person influenced by circumstances can become viciously envious or affectionately kind. Our company and our surroundings have a crucial effect on our consciousness. How important it is to be an instrument to bring out the inherent good of each other rather than the worst.

Radhanath Swami

#27. Often we cannot hear God's gentle whisper because we allow the noise of our surroundings to choke out any possibility of recognizing His voice.

Shelene Bryan

#28. 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.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#29. The way we habitually think of our surroundings and ourselves create the worlds that each of us inhabit.

Charles Duhigg

#30. We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

T-Pain

#31. Our surroundings fade and we exist in unison, two people who once shared cups of coffee, unprecedentedly ourselves in a changing world.

Caroline George

#32. All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad.

Francisco Costa

#33. The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.

Ellen Goodman

#34. Curiosity's primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We're hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

Julie Czerneda

#35. Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

Letitia Baldrige

#36. Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that - in my humble opinion - allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

Mohsin Hamid

#37. In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

Andy Rooney

#38. We are gifted with freedom, but with that freedom comes the reality of the unknown and the responsibility to be aware of our surroundings and on guard against those who would do us harm.

Mike Crapo

#39. Everything is temporary, Duane. This," he gestured to our surroundings, "this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts.

Penny Reid

#40. The answers we're looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present - to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide.

Mariel Hemingway

#41. The world carried on before we arrived. We make our entrance, adapt to our surroundings and join the chase to nowhere. We depart without fulfilment. The world carries on.

Kamil Ali

#42. Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

Ron Conway

#43. Every action or inaction has an impact-good or bad-upon our surroundings, and anything we do today will have an impact on the lives of our grandchildren.

Ted Turner

#44. The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

Arthur Schopenhauer

#45. Reality rarely changes; only our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives.

Chip St. Clair

#46. Our potential is so great that we have the ability to change our lives, our surroundings and the global world with just an idea

Bruce Budden

#47. The state of our surroundings, tells the conditions of our soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#48. In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.

Doug Aitken

#49. Civilization is about removing information about our surroundings; discarding information about nature so our senses are not burdened with all that information and our consciousness can concentrate on other matters.

Tor Norretranders

#50. To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

Piet Mondrian

#51. Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

Asa Don Brown

#52. I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings as beautiful and soulful as possible.

Alexandra Stoddard

#53. Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

Honore De Balzac

#54. Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#55. Eventually we become part of our surroundings, and they become part of us.

Andrew Neiderman

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

William H. O'Connell

#57. When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.

Frederick Lenz

#58. We search for ourselves in our surroundings, and everything I saw was either brand-new or falling apart. Most

Justin Cronin

#59. Far too often we adopt the mindset of our surroundings
rather than the mindset of Jesus Christ

Louis

#60. We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts; theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.

Philip Yancey

#61. There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

Katherine Center

#62. Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

Rachel Carson

#63. Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most gracefuL and the most beautiful of all animales in our Indian jungles.

Jim Corbett

#64. Things that are different, things that don't fit into our own typical surroundings, do tend to set off some sort of subliminal trigger in most people. Your pulse beats faster, you become more aware of your environment, more in touch with your fight-or-flight response.

Rysa Walker

#65. You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion. She motioned to our virtual surroundings.

Ernest Cline

#66. Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.

John Gierach

#67. O God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, forgive me for becoming so enthralled with my surroundings that I forget to look up and gaze into Thy face. The radiance of Thy face is all I really need. Amen.

A.W. Tozer

#68. Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

Fernando Pessoa

#69. Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways.

Pascal Mercier

#70. All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

Ed McMahon

#71. Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.

Dogen

#72. Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

Allan Kaprow

#73. You selfish dog. I pity you that you must leave the comfort of your pampered surroundings and sacrifice a little to serve our country for a time

Jennifer Clark

#74. Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

Frank Herbert

#75. New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

Gottfried Bohm

#76. If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then ... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

Luther Burbank

#77. Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.

Austin Kleon

#78. The need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in the long run than it does good in the short.

Aldous Huxley

#79. Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings.

Emily Giffin

#80. Norwegian theologian O. Hallesby is "to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world or material surroundings as a whole in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things."The

William Thrasher

#81. In familiar surroundings our manners are cheerful and easy, but only transport us to places where we know no one and no one knows us, and Lord! how uncomfortable we become!

Susanna Clarke

#82. Home is the heart of life Home is where we feel at ease, where we belong, where we can create surroundings that reflect our tastes and pleasures Making a home is a form of creativity open to everyone.

Terence Conran

#83. The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture.

Elisabeth Beazley

#84. Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

Karl Polanyi

#85. Our vision is to create an exceptional lifestyle offering worthy of Tamarack's incredible surroundings. All of our partners involved in this development are committed to delivering the highest level of quality and luxury possible. We are excited to have Fairmont join us in this endeavor.

Andre Agassi

#86. However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.

Mehmet Murat Ildan