Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. — Steve Maraboli
If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew. — Pocahontas
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. — Mark Twain
There are no strangers in Freemasonry, only friends you've yet to meet. — Dave Thomas
As long as any one has the means of doing good to his neighbours, and does not do so, he shall be reckoned a stranger to the love of the Lord. — Irenaeus of Lyons
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. — Leo Tolstoy
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. — Werner Heisenberg
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. — Barbara Bush
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. — William Butler Yeats
Short Strangers Quotes
I don't take gifts from perfect strangers — but then, nobody is perfect. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I believe that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you... stranger. — Heath Ledger
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Why do you put your self-esteem in the hands of complete strangers? — Helena Bonham Carter
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. — Vladimir Nabokov
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. — Kobayashi Issa
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
Get together like brothers, but work together like strangers. — Arabic Proverbs
Don’t trust strangers. — Filipino Proverbs
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. — Lord Byron
Strangers Image Quotes
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't meet.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. — Shirley Maclaine
A friend may be waiting behind a strangers face.
What To Say To A Stranger Quotes
The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?" — John Guare
I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it. — Philip K. Dick
I was working in computers when this stranger approached me out of the blue, saying I should become an actor. I took it as a gift from God, because I had been praying for clarity about what He wanted me to do, since I wasn't happy in computers. — Nate Parker
Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler.
"What about him?" she’d say, finding an attractive guy to point out while they were standing in the lunch line. "Do you want to kiss him?" "I don’t want to kiss a stranger," Cath would answer. "I’m not interested in lips out of context." — Rainbow Rowell
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Helping A Stranger Quotes
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side. — Nichole Nordeman
You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them. — William H. McRaven
The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger. — Robert Fulghum
Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so some have entertained angels without knowing.
Life is stranger than fiction. It's nice to have stuff that people don't know about. And it helps when you read a bad review. You can go, "This guy doesn't have me figured out." There's more mystery to you than they understand. — Dolph Lundgren
I want people to be more open and tolerant. I want them to know that behind every stranger is a backstory that is the common denominator - for we all share in the human experience: pain, sadness, grief, lack of love, and then, with hope and help, step by step achievements. — Oprah Winfrey
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires. — Jean Rostand
Success occurs when strangers become friends.
The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.' — Matthew Perry
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers. — Maya Angelou
It was very liberating to be able to sing in English. It had a different resonance, different images. It was like being a stranger in a foreign land, which was helpful. — Charlotte Gainsbourg
A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. — Charles Spurgeon
Being Stranger Quotes
Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you. — Hafez
I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt. — Donald Woods Winnicott
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens
We all start as strangers
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. — Barbara Bush
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind. — Chris Hedges
Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger. — Saint Patrick
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. — Jane Austen
We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has. — Amy Carmichael
Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt. — Salvador Minuchin
It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry. — John Taylor Gatto
Loving A Stranger Quotes
You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other. — Zygmunt Bauman
Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not. — Judith Martin
Dine with a stranger but save your love for your family. — African Proverbs
Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love. — Zooey Deschanel
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it! — Sophia Bush
I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television. — Cillian Murphy
we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers — Kami Garcia
I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me — June Jordan
As an Internet celebrity Nutritionist, it's wonderful to be sitting in a café in Northern Italy and have a total stranger come up and thank me for my work. But I must say that it certainly keeps me personally walking the walk that I talk. — Steven Gundry
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. — Jean Baudrillard
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. — G. K. Chesterton
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. — Randall Munroe
I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it. — Sean Penn
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. — Jerry Seinfeld
to the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering. — Santha Rama Rau
So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most. — Camille Dungy
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. — Adrian Mitchell
Perfect Strangers Quotes
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? — Vladimir Nabokov
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is stranger and more tragic and more perfect than everything that is ordinary about me and you. — Eleanor Catton
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. — Louise Jameson
It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect. — Mae West
We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger — Gordon Livingston
Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. — John O'Callaghan
If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the relations, thou shalt depart crowned with glory and knowing that thou hast been adjudged perfect in this species of wisdom. — Ivor Bulmer-Thomas
The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had, why write to me, a perfect stranger? — Maurice Sendak
The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We may sing 'welcome, welcome, Holy Spirit', but He does not come because of our welcome. He is no guest, no stranger invited in for an hour or two. He is the Lord from heaven and He invites us into His presence. — Reinhard Bonnke
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges... — George Washington
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. — Melody Beattie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger. — T. S. Eliot
The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses. — Daniel Berrigan
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. — Mark Twain
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. — Tecumseh
In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that. — Enoch Powell
Gold and Bitcoin also hedge against inflation, never pay negative interest, and when held directly are not subject to haircuts and do not depend on strangers keeping their promises. — Nick Szabo
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. — Chuck Palahniuk
Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever. — Florence King
Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth. — J. Vernon McGee
Digitally centralized assets are deeply unsafe. Don't put so much of your family's wealth in assets that some stranger can turn on and off like a switch. — Nick Szabo
Let us remember the poor, and not forget kindness to strangers; above all, let us love God with all our soul, and might, and strength, and our neighbour as ourselves. — Athanasius of Alexandria
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