Stranger Quotes - Page 2

• I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

  Albert Camus

  Life, World, Existentialism

  Albert Camus (2002). “The Stranger”, Spark Notes

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• Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger

  Viola Spolin

  Space, Invisible

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• A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Discovery, Events, Awakening

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Meaningful, Spiritual, People

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• Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Relationship, Uncles, Men

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• this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

  Janet Fitch

  Pieces, Paper, Wonderful

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• Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Use, Way, Feels

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

  Moses

  Land, Has Beens, Foreign Lands

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• One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever gaining a foothold. If only we would realize that the other person is probably just as shy as we are and is simply waiting—and hoping—for us to make the first move.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Moving, Waiting, Shy

  Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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  If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Funny, Life

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.424, Modern Library

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• Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Impact, Practice, Two

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jul 01, 2010

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• Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Endearing, Knows

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic, "Benefactors" (p. 110), 1999.

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• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Truth, Fiction

  Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93

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• I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Home, Tired

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

  A. E. Housman

  World, Made

  Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

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• Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Elderly, Sick

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• I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Want, Littles

  "The Stranger". Book by Albert Camus, 1946.

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• The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Death, God

  Quoted in Philipp Frank Einstein: His Life and Times (1947), ch.12, section 5.

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• Love is candy from a stranger, but it's candy you've had before and it probably won't kill you.

  Daniel Handler

  Love Is, Candy

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• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Inspirational Life, Fiction

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• It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Uncles, Men, Perfect

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• It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

  Vanna Bonta

  Real, People, Gossip

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.

  Saint Augustine

  Friendship, Hands, Two Friends

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