Quotes About Surroundings

The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.

I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

To change your physical surroundings you must first overcome them in your mind.

We choose every day, our attitude towards our surroundings, people and situations. What we accept and include into our inner space shows to ourselves who and what we want to have in our life. This is part of what defines us and ultimately make our own life.

I was so happy renting in New York City for so long because renting—or at least the way I rented, which involved never lifting a finger to better my surroundings—allows you to let things literally fall apart all around you. Then, when it gets to be too much, you just move on.

I would fall asleep, and often I would be awake again for short snatches only, just long enough to hear the regular creaking of the wainscot, or to open my eyes to settle the shifting kaleidoscope of the darkness, to savour, in an instantaneous flash of perception, the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant part and whose unconsciousness I should very soon return to share.

the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant pat and whose unconsciousness I should very soon return to share.

The poor have been doubly impoverished by the ugliness that surrounds them.

The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

Every person's childhood story is unique, just like we are all meant to be unique. But the influence of surroundings play an important role in making of one's individuality.

When one feels oneself smitten by love for a woman, one ought to say to oneself, 'What are 'her surroundings? What has been her life?' All one's future happiness lies in the answer.

The whole house seemed to be permeated by the scent of the herb garden.

Individuals in this predicament may find it next to impossible to relax their wakeful hypervigilance in relation to their surroundings even when no longer confronted by any immediate challenge or danger; a prolonged or repeated exposure to trauma can put individuals on the defensive for the simple reason that it causes them to anticipate, and brace themselves against, more trauma.

I always say that environment always affects the food.

Remember: You can't always change the people around you. But you can change the people you're around.

You can't always change the people around you. But you can change the people you're around.

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.

It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

To avoid undesirable behavior, avoid the environments where it is most likely to occur.