Strange quotes
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"I have not asked for life. But I try to accept whatever life brings without surprise. And I shall depart again without having questioned anyone about my strange stay here on earth."
"One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things."
"Everybody look at you strange, say you changed Like you work that hard to stay the same."
"Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being."
"I am not strange. I am just not normal."
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"To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it."
"There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil."
"Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange."
"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."
"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
"There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta ."
"We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble."
"We that are true lovers run into strange capers."
"Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?"
"Any view of things that is not strange, is false."
"We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly."
"...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra."
"The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?"
"Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning."
"The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair."
"There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?"
"There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you."
"Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself."
"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life"
"It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full."
