#stranger

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare. ↗

— Mike McIntyre

#helping-others #kindness #strangers #charity

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it. ↗

— John O'Callaghan

#believe #bucket-list #do-it #do-something #faith

We feel the love of strangers every day in the things they do that affect us without our knowledge. ↗

— Cassia Leo

#strangers #home

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#science-fiction #stranger-in-a-strange-land #faith

...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 my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#loss #strangers #life

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. ↗

— Mark Twain

#fiction #make #sense #stranger #than

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. ↗

— John Berger

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give. ↗

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

#being #being nice #business #clear #each

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

#coworkers #even #fact #family #friends

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. ↗

— Lord Byron

#strange #strange thing #stranger #thing #woman