Surroundings Quotations

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

You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you.

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

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

If you can't change your surroundings, change your hair color.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

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

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

With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness...

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

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.

One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.

A new environment encourages us to be more mindful and present, as we're more likely to notice and appreciate new surroundings.

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.

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.

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

You have to invest in yourself and your surroundings.

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.

I treat everywhere as being a center from which I can enjoy the surroundings.

I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

The soul is stronger than its surroundings.