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 HighsmithTags: life words mind self sounds actions strangers voice inner-voice train shouting invasion lights patricia-highsmith strangers-on-a-train inner-voicery shocked
Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.
Steve MaraboliTags: inspirational compassion smile strangers change-a-life
Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.
Megan BoyleTags: strangers unknowable-mass
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 EverageTags: friends strangers bewildered
Day 72
I remember oranges and you don’t mind me leaving the queue momentarily to find some. When you say, Of course, you reach for my arm in sympathy and recognition. This may be the thing that breaks me today, that stops me in my tracks before driving me forward, turning a corner, making something work, letting everything happen. When I return, you’re touching my yoghurts, reading the ingredients, as though you are making them yours, protecting them in my absence and amusing yourself with the cherry-ness of them. On days like this, I want to take my strangers home with me.
Tags: stories strangers london speaking flash-fiction oranges
The city's full of people who you just see around.
Terry PratchettTags: strangers cities acquaintances
Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.
Mike McIntyreTags: kindness strangers charity helping-others
For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.
Alexandra PotterHave 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 strangers.
A.L. KennedyTags: success humility strangers abilities enrichment personal-satisfaction
The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remembered somebody saying that at night we are all strangers, even to ourselves, and this struck her as being true.
Alexander McCall SmithTags: night strange strangers unfamiliar
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