I know you have it in you, Guy,” Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, “the capacity to be terribly happy.

I don’t expect you to like me. But I hope you can tolerate me

He was no lover in a worldly sense; the only love he knew was that of divine understanding, of taking a whole life into its depths as if they were his own. From this, the...

We have succeeded in identifying some strangers in the wedding clips. Very soon, we will prepare the sketches of such people to facilitate the identification of the suspects.

You have to believe that people will be open to your advances. We psych ourselves out of approaching a potential BFF or emailing a role model because it seems far-fetched that they’d want to be...

…until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with...

To better understand people, don’t just judge them based on how they treat you; rather, look deeply to see how they treat their families, friends and strangers. A lot of people tend to be extremely...

Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.

It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like....

Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.

I’m not a stranger,” I said, and pointed to his book. “I’m someone who reads the same authors you do.

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or...

Have more humility. Remember you don’t know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few...

Isn’t friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was something special about these strangers; you felt a connection, something in common, a special bond, and your friendship began....

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

Neno moja kutoka mdomoni mwako linaweza kukuletea madhara makubwa. Waweza kusema kitu ukadhani umepatia kumbe umeharibu. Fikiria kwanza maana ya kitu unachosema, halafu sema.

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...

The older you get, the easier it is for you to distinguish between your friends and people you are not seeing for the first time.

When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out...

Talk to strangers politely… Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.

They were my family, yet they were strangers.

What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?

Our town was small enough that I never developed a healthy fear of strangers. To me, they were exciting things, gift-wrapped and full of possibilities, the sweet smell of somewhere else wafting from them like...

When there are 16 ounces of coffee to be shared by two strangers, and only one 8-ounce cup between them, then one man must give up his coffee, and the other must formulate an alibi.

Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example,...

It is finally about the quality of the conversations and silences we share, isn’t it? We become strangers when we have nothing to say to each other. We die to each other, when the conversations...

Kuwa mwangalifu unapoongea na watu. Huwajui!

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as...

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

Summer sticks to her skirt sumptuously, in the shiny gray fabric hanging loosely from her curves. Her chestnut eyes, apparently hidden from strangers; her simple but graceful face, unpainted by Madison Avenue; and her straight...

It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

Solace, is having the same company for years, while being seen as a stranger. Here, only a fool would think he had the luxury of friends.

When strangers start acting like neighbors… communities are reinvigorated.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

Don’t take in no strangers while I’m gone.She sighed deeply. They ain’t a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection–intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed...

…all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel — the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

You will forever be a stranger in a world that cannot really understand you…

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

In this world of memories, there’s no need for strangers.-Kenshin to Kaoru

Anyway, I think Florence and I noticed each other before the local train screeched to a halt at the 110th Street station, because as I boarded it felt as though we were supposed to step...

I think it’s very unhealthy to claim you love someone you don’t know.

The two girls used to meet several times a day, and every time they met, Kitty’s eyes said: “Who are you? What are you? Are you really the exquisite creature I imagine you to be?...

I like strangers, they say the nicest things

Simon would have felt both honored and love, except mostly he felt weird, because he had only a few broken fragments of memory that said he knew these people at all, and a whole lifetime...

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

In a sea of strangers,you’ve longed to know me.Your life spent sailingto my shores.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and...

I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own...