Woe to those who get what they desire. Fulfillment leaves an empty space where your old self used to be, the self that pines and broods and reflects. You furnish a dream house in your imagination, but how startling and final when that dream house is your own address. What is left to you? Surrounded by what you wanted, you feel a sense of amputation. The feelings you were used to abiding with are useless. The conditions you established for your happiness are met. That youthful light-headed feeling whose sharp side is much like hunger is of no more use to you.
It's the balance I'm trying to find - not being disconnected but giving myself some space to be in my world. I feel like I'm surrounded by friends of mine who are very different from one another but all care about similar things. We talk about this a lot, and I think that's probably the main thing - being surrounded by good people is the best way to stay in a solid head space. You want to be able to talk about these things, and be able to think things through and feel things through. That's helpful for me.
I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't see God, because you KNOW ABOUT God. The final barrier to the vision of God is your God concept. You miss God because you think you know. The highest knowledge of God is to know God as unknowable. All revelations, however divine, are never any more than a finger pointing at the moon. As we say in the East, 'When the sage points to the moon, all the idiot sees is the finger'.
I'm surrounded by people who care about me and love me. I have a great job. I have wonderful roommates who take care of me. I have a family who adores me.
We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.
Besides, the mhis that surrounded the compound could scramble anything from GPS to Santa Claus.
Most people think of Ariel when they think of mermaids. What they don't know is that she's surrounded by really hot-tempered mermaids.
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
Press on. Your defining moment may arrive just when you feel surrounded by adversity.
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.
My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
I'm a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He's surrounded by love.
It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.
Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".
One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.
It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.