#rangers

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

— Molly Friedenfeld

#connected #heart-level #joy #kindness #love

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 feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#inner-voice #inner-voicery #invasion #life #lights

Good things happen when you meet strangers. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#good things #happen #meet #strangers #things

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs. ↗

— Steve Martin

#banjo #canyon #comedy #during #i

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! ↗

— Hortense Odlum

#been #bewildered #death #face #face reality

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#bizarre #completely #fictional #find #i

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ↗

— George Sand

#familiarity #strangers

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense. ↗

— Scott Ritter

#hospitality #immense #iraqi #iraqi people #life

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#fear #friends #makes #people #strangers