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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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• Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

  Roy T. Bennett

  Thinking, People, Negative

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• I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.

  Claude Monet

  Artist, Air, Bridges

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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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• Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions - even through the limitless space of the heavens - surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Country, Distance, Men

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• It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

  Solomon Northup

  Years, Childhood, Association

  Solomon Northup (2008). “Twelve Years a Slave”, p.206, Applewood Books

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• An important purpose for mortality is to help us learn to recognize and to choose the positive even though the negative more fully surrounds us. We make this choice consciously or unconsciously in every moment of the day, and these millions of tiny choices create the foundation of our identity. We are what we think. We are what we say, what we do, what we fill our lives with. Ultimately, every being creates himself by these countless, crucial choices.

  Betty Eadie

  Thinking, Choices, Identity

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• With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for himself, find the way in which we can make our individual lives fit into the pattern of all the lives which surround it. We must establish our own relationships to the whole. And each must do it in his own way, using his own talents, relying on his own integrity and strength, climbing his own road to his own summit.

  Hortense Odlum

  Integrity, Climbing, Patterns

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• Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

  Claire Cook

  Laughter, Fun, Years

  Claire Cook (2014). “Time Flies: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you.
  Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.

  Rumi

  Moon, Clouds, Light

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• Miracles happen every day. They bubble up from their hidden source, surround us with opportunities and disappear.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Miracle, Disappear

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• I am a shining star, and I surround myself with people who encourage my brightness.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Stars, People, Shining

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• Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Littles, Serving God, Christian Service

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.295, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Surround yourself with people strong enough to change your mind.

  John Wooden

  Strong, People, Mind

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• The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, Important, Success And Failure

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• Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

  Louis Bromfield

  Country, Kings, Food

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• I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more - not so raw or so new.

  Robin Gibb

  Pain, Used, Happened

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

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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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• The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

  Otto Weininger

  Reality, Doe, Genius

  "Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (p. 139), 1906.

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• Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Opportunity, Thinking, Long

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• There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Diversity, Age

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• Human nature is such that humans can turn to God anywhere at any time, and by believing in His care and protection, and thinking in accordance with this belief, fill their hearts with peace and poise, rebuild their bodies into health and strength, and surround themselves with harmonious and joyous conditions.

  Emmet Fox

  God, Believe, Heart

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• Dolby was in the driver's seat. "Surround Sound" was added. Now we had three speakers behind the screen, two more on the left side of the theater, and two on the right. A closely guarded secret about all this is that you hear the correct balance only if you're sitting in the center of the theater. On the left or right side, those speakers tend to dominate.

  Sidney Lumet

  Surround Sound, Two, Secret

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• It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Kings, Light

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