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• What are friends for? They are the ultimate reflection of yourself. Always surround yourself with people who inspire you and return the favor by giving them the best of you.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Reflection, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Jenny McCarthy from Apr 06, 2012

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• The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.

  Michel Gondry

  Moving, Ideas, Track

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• Always surround yourself with friends that have plenty of light in them. That way, you will always have candles around you when days are dark.

  Suzy Kassem

  Dark, Light, Way

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

  Pete Seeger

  Teaching, Light, Sound

  "How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger". Book by David King Dunaway, 1981.

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• Today, journalists more than any other cohort of professionals, are responsible for the confusion that surrounds power and its criminality in contemporary society. As Janet Malcolm said in another context, 'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.'

  Martin Walker

  Stupid, Media, Confusion

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• From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Nature, Men, Doubt

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spring, Sunday, Air

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Jobs, People, Brain

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• Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jobs, Thinking, Self

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

  Rodney Mullen

  People, Focus, Trying

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• Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us

  Dennis Banks

  Harmony, Native

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• Each day, awakening, are we asked to paint the sky blue? Need we coax the sun to rise or flowers to bloom? Need we teach birds to sing, or children to laugh, or lovers to kiss? No, though we think the world imperfect, it surrounds us each day with its perfections. We are asked only to appreciate them, and to show appreciation by living in peaceful harmony amidst them. The Creator does not ask that we create a perfect world; He asks that we celebrate it.

  Robert Breault

  Appreciation, Children, Flower

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• Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

  Davey Havok

  Drug Use, Practice, People

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• When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Differences

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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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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• If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

  Elif Safak

  Wall, Motivation, Inspiration

  "The politics of fiction". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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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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• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, Self, People

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

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• You will rarely make wise decisions if you surround yourself with fools

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Wise, Decision, Fool

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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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• Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

  Roy T. Bennett

  People, Good Things, Surround Yourself

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• Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Dream, Motivation, Distance

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