Surroundings Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Spiritual, Order, Ties

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify with through a lack of clear-sightedness. When you are attentive to a tree or flower, the perception, shape, name and concept are not the only things present. There is also the All-presence that you share with them and that you are both part of. The very name and form spring forth from this eternal background, the All-presence. This is instantaneous awareness that cannot be reached by thought.

  Jean Klein

  Spring, Flower, Names

  Jean Klein (1981). “Neither This nor That I Am”

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• In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one mountain, by a lift may be convenient but it robs us of the greatest pleasure that skiing can give, that is to travel through the wide wintery country; to follow the lure of peaks which tempt on the horizon and to be alone for a few days or even hours in clear, mysterious surroundings.

  Hans Gmoser

  Country, Giving, Snow

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• If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Men, Mind

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• Art should become as one with its surroundings.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Life, Art, Should

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• In wilderness people can find the silence and the solitude and the noncivilized surroundings that can connect them once again to their evolutionary heritage, and through an experience of the eternal mystery, can give them a sense of the sacredness of all creation.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Music, Giving, People

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• Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done.

  Joe Shuster

  Science, Artist, Superhero

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• Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.

  T. J. Jagodowski

  Real, Environment, Happenings

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• A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.

  Christina Rossetti

  Men, Self, Proportion

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.357, OUP Oxford

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• It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.

  George Woodward Warder

  Heaven, Would Be, Looks

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• Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well.

  Michael Foale

  Giving, Long, Looks

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• The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.

  Verner Panton

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Work

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• The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.

  Verner Panton

  Work, People, Imagination

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• Well, wherever you go, whatever you do, you're still you. You can change your surroundings, start a new life, but you'll always fall into the same old patterns, make the same kind of friends, commit the same mistakes. The thing you need to change is yourself.

  Chris Wooding

  Mistake, Fall, Patterns

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• Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

  "Bill Bailey: Part Troll", 2004.

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• Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered

  Franz Boas

  People, Migration, Study

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.

  Duane Elgin

  Simple, Simplicity, Mind

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• 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

  Home, Heart, Individual

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• As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

  Richard Louv

  Needs, Natural, Young

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• I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.

  Miranda Kerr

  People, Way, Changed

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• The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.

  Emmanuel Mounier

  Men, Mind, Constellations

  Emmanuel Mounier (2013). “Personalism”, p.20, Read Books Ltd

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• Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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

  Important, Kind, Consciousness

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the criminals transported from England to Australia and other penal colonies, became good and useful citizens in a new world.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Australia, People, World

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• Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.

  Edward Bernays

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  "Propaganda".

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