Quotes about Surroundings

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.

The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself.

There was peace in our hearts, for all the dark things that surrounded us.

He felled them in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.

Whether we are in the city, the countryside, or the wilderness, we need to sustain ourselves by choosing our surroundings carefully and nourishing our awareness in each moment.

She chose to look at her surroundings where they "think missionary" mind-set.

God hides things by putting them all around us.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

Behold, I am about to bring terror upon you, declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, from all those around you. You will each be driven headlong, with no one to regather the fugitives.

For in every case man retains the freedom and the possibility of deciding for or against the influence of his surroundings.