Presence requires an internal alertness
to the all and everything surrounding us.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Surround yourself with people who
take their work seriously,
but not themselves,
those who work hard and play hard.
- Colin Powell
Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance
that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I create a new and more loving story
to surround each event in my past.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound -
so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Property is intended to serve life,
and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect,
it has no personal being.
It is part of the earth man walks on.
It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We all should choose our friends carefully.
I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else,
because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself.
If you think like that, you surround yourself with
other people who are willing to tell you who you are,
which are usually judgmental people ...
we should really surround ourselves with the ones
that adore us and believe in the highest of us.
- Jewel
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with Spirit. Spirit is within me.
Spirit permeates me and surrounds me.
Spirit is my comfort and my strength.
I am one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How paramount the future is to the present
when one is surrounded by children.
- Charles Darwin
The Eye-of-the-Storm.
Surrounded by the winds and the rain,
yet peaceful in its own unworldly way -
an unnatural ruddy-cloudy misty-bright kind of way.
Whatever comes next, the eye of the storm is
a moment of serenity among the challenge -
a time for repose and contemplation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage
is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Where did you park the invisible car?
- the movie Megamind (2010)
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
Where large sums of money are concerned,
it is advisable to trust nobody.
- Agatha Christie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out
where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
- George Carlin
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The ache for home lives in all of us,
the safe place where we can
go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Where There is Love,
Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You know that place between sleeping and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I'll always think of you.
- James M. Barrie
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
None of us got where we are solely by
pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
- Thurgood Marshall
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
The simplest questions are the most profound.
Where were you born?
Where is your home?
Where are you going?
What are you doing?
Think about these once in a while
and watch your answers change.
- Richard Bach
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free
and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.
I was born where there were no enclosures.
- Geronimo
Give a boy address and accomplishments
and you give him the mastery
of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
- Oprah Winfrey
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Where there is love there is life.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs
Where there's life, there's hope.
- Terence
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill
Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower
Went up where the homeless had their home.
- Jewel
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict
between thinking and feeling.
- Carl Jung
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where love is, there God is also.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread,
places to play in and pray in,
where nature may heal and cheer
and give strength to the body and soul.
- John Muir
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