#shaped

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#character #colored #come #contact #day

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#believe #brought #circumstances #comes #did

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#been #communicate #communication #content #media

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#ago #character #christian #culture #decisively

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#either #end #image #life #live

Being born and raised as a Californian, I somewhat ignorantly had taken for granted the diversity and liberal mindset that shaped my childhood and adult life. ↗

— Carre Otis

#adult life #being #born #childhood #diversity

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#brain #dangerous #genome #idea #implications

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. ↗

— Anne Rice

#answers #ask #beings #contrary #few

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation. ↗

— George P. Baker

#come #dramatists #generation #into #judging

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. ↗

— Russell Banks

#been #draw #i #life #my life