#rounding

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. ↗

— William James

#blame #common #determines #does #environment

I learned that surrounding myself with people who are able to help me is like being surrounded by tangible godliness. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#being #godliness #help #i #learned

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about. ↗

— Ed McMahon

#all americans #caring #makes #need #our

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy. ↗

— Billy Crudup

#fantasy #hearsay #i #indulged #life

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night. ↗

— Lee Grant

#begun #childhood #documentary #fearlessness #fight

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

#beautiful women #keeps #me #myself #surrounding

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. ↗

— James Allen

#being #conditioned #happiness #happy #harmonious

I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#i #kind #need #over #place

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#been #certain #certain age #choose #expectations

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

#extraordinary #go #interested #keen #most