The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.
Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.
You are affected by the surroundings, the mood of people, by confidence. I am no different.
When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.
One had to immerse oneself in one's surroundings and intensely study nature or one's subject to understand how to recreate it.
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 think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.
If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.
You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.
However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings. . . It's something we make inside ourselves.
I would get songs sung to me, like 'Old Man River, 'or kids would call me Mississippi and things like that. At the time, I wished I had a name that blended in more with my surroundings. Now, though, I've really learned to love it. From fifteen, I really liked it. It felt appropriate. Before that, I don't think it quite fitted me. I had to grow into it.
I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.
I like to think I'm like water that adapts to its surroundings and eventually finds a way in.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.