Strangers Quotes

If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows. Never reveal what you are doing until you have accomplished it. Resentment does not only come from those close to you, but also distant strangers. Therefore, fiercely guard the passions burning inside your heart, so that their flames can safely reach the highest ceilings of success without the eyes of envy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.

~ M.e. Kerr

I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you buy at the store—ladies with smooth brown hair and show-me smiles, grapefruit-headed babies on their sibling's knees—people who in real life probably were strangers brought together by a talent scout to be a phony family.Maybe it's not so different from real photos, after all.

~ Jodi Picoult

Remember, there are people who care for us: there are some who grow food for us, some who cook for us, some who take our trash out, some who keep us safe, some who call us late at night when it’s been a tough day and some who are right by our side the next morning when we are sick, some who smile at us, some who hold the door for us, some who compliment us, who back us, who pray for us. And, they can be friends and family and mentors and relatives and sometimes, in fact, most of the times, even perfect strangers. Let’s be grateful to each one of them, let’s be grateful to all those around us.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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 nice in the process of getting the things they want or need, but would show their true colors after they have succeeded with their agendas. So always bear in mind that a person who has a good heart loves being nice to their friends, family, partner and strangers.

~ Hafiz

They were my family, yet they were strangers.

~ Maria V. Snyder

When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.

~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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

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

~ Patricia Highsmith

Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sleeping with strangers will have you walking with enemies.

~ Eric Jerome Dickey

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 at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives. The comfort of strangers, be it a smile, a pat on the shoulder or a word of praise, is truly a comfort.

~ Yann Martel

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

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we get in a situation is not the other person’s fault, rather it is our own hang-ups. A life filled with bias, hatred, judgment, insecurity, fear, delusion and self-righteousness can cloud the soul of anyone you meet. Our job is never to assume,instead it is to listen, communicate, ask questions then ask more, until we know the true depth of someone’s spirit.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Connect and communicate to sacred strangers in daily life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The more light in your composition, the more generous you are. That is the first sign of a true light warrior. They give without waiting for you to ask. They give without expecting to be repaid. They give to strangers and even offer help to enemies. And sadly, because their light is so bright, they also attract tons of bugs and flies their way.

~ Suzy Kassem

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.

~ Paul Theroux

We are not strangers. It’s a lack of trust that keeps us separated.

~ Michael R. French

Don't let strangers touch you. And yet it is seldom strangers, I learned long before I was a teenager, who do you harm. It is always the ones closest to us: the suave chauffeur, the skilled photographer, the kind music teacher, the good friend's sober and dignified husband, the pious man of God. They are the ones your parents trust, whom they don't want to believe anything against.

~ Azar Nafisi

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections, be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers, you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

...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

What should I call you? A friend, a stranger, or a lover? I remember the day you laid your eyes on me the first time. There was just something unwavering about that moment. It wasn’t peaceful or absolute. It was definite. Something that was bound to happen. It was like as if our souls were waiting for us to collide. And oh we did! We collided like meteors, giving this universe a spectacular view. From my 2 am thought that used to keep me up at night, you soon became my 2 am call. From an almost stranger to my skin, you became a part of me. But just like every collision, ours also had to end in destruction. The 2 am call soon became a 2 am thought. The thought still keeps me up at night, but not for the same reasons. From strangers to lovers and lovers to strangers again, our journey hasn’t been ordinary. Someone asked me about you today and for a moment, I didn’t know what to call you. Who are you to me now? A friend – no. Definitely not a lover. I guess, you and I – we are just strangers with memories.

~ Bhavya Kaushik

It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place. You hoped to know Ellington Feinr forever, but there's no such thing as forever, really. Everything is much shorter than that.

~ Lemony Snicket

These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this city. That's how we lose the city - that's how our knowledge of what the world is is taken away from us - when what we know is blasted into rubble and what is created in its place bears no resemblance to what there was and we are left strangers in a place we knew, in a place we ought to have known.

~ Bilal Tanweer

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.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

It doesn't matter if you never see someone again, I told myself. There are millions of people in the world, and most of them never see each other in the first place.

~ Lemony Snicket

Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.

~ Margaret Atwood

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

~ Robert Henri

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.

~ Dame Edna Everage

It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a familiar one.

~ Lauren Lola