#stranger

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else? ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#anyone #cent #comes #complete #else

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#close #economics #kin #religion #root

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#biological #children #different #had #into

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#greater #his #house #loneliness #own

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

#ask #because #come #dispute #friend

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive. ↗

— Stella Benson

#bond #cursed #families #family #jokes

The man in the street is always a stranger. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#man #stranger #street

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#bit #does #me #see #some

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me. ↗

— Viktor Yanukovych

#bad people #equal #good #good people #me

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#excellent #exercise #i #i do #i think