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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Life, Home, Gratitude

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

Truth, Fiction, Stick

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Truth, Sense, Wonder

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

Truth, Why, After

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Death, Honor, Land

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Live, Single, Born

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman

Why, Speak, Desire

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Men, Wisdom

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer

Cannot, Everyone, Ourselves

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Tecumseh

Lonely, Friend, Give

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth, Strange, Fiction

Never floss with a stranger.
Joan Rivers

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Life, Truth, Someone

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman

Freedom, Strange, Free

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

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Truth, Strange, Fiction

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
Agatha Christie

Nothing, Child, Yours

The man in the street is always a stranger.
Mason Cooley

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

Failure, Loneliness, House

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

Friend, Hard, Honest

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov

Love, Matter, Memory

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
Davy Crockett

Conscience, Name, Judgement

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
John Mayer

Everybody, Danger

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.
Susan Orlean

Life, Days, Dog

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.
Emma Thompson

Father, High, Town

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

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.
Arthur Miller

Fight, Fair, Boy

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Annie Leibovitz

Truth, Nothing, Reality

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

Mother, Children, Different

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
Phil McGraw

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