Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes by Wang Wei, Salvador Minuchin, Robert A. Heinlein, Otto Rank, Khalil Gibran, Raphael Bob-Waksberg and many others.
To be a stranger in a strange land:
Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one’s brother twice as much as before,
There where my brother far away is ascending,
The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one’s brother twice as much as before,
There where my brother far away is ascending,
The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.
Only the family, society’s smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be ‘strangers in a strange land,’ who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.
My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, for there are plenty of others.
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth–then shut up.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
‘Lost in Translation’ movie says something interesting about the alienation of being a stranger in a strange land, but also of being a celebrity. That kind of feeling of not being in the same strata as everyone else.
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes…
I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.
