Stranger Quotes

• Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Good Morning, Smile, Laughter

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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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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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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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• Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Mets

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• A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Couple, Needs, Sugar Daddy

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.368, St. Martin's Press

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• Everyone you meet in your life - even total strangers - are already intimately connected to you. The idea that we are all separate and distinct beings is nothing but an illusion. We are all parts of a larger whole, like individual cells in a body.

  Steve Pavlina

  Cells, Ideas, Body

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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• We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Born

  Robert Charles Wilson (2010). “Spin”, p.438, Macmillan

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• Met you as a stranger
  Took you as a friend
  Hope we meet in Heaven
  Where friendship never ends

  Raheel Sharif

  Friendship, Heaven, Mets

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Science, Fiction

  Following the Equator ch. 15, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897) See Byron 33; Chesterton 6

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• In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

  Robert Breault

  Life, Two, Problem

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• There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Richard Rodriguez (2004). “Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez”, p.200, Bantam

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• Shower your unconditional love even if it might be a stranger

  Sivaji Ganesan

  Love, Might, Showers

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• Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Spiritual, Fear

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Relationship, Uncles, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• I have been a stranger in a foreign land.

  Moses

  Land, Has Beens, Foreign Lands

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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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• A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.

  Stephen Elliott

  Reflection, Light, Years

  Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.158, ReadHowYouWant.com

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