Stranger_To_Friendship_Transformation

Table of Contents

• Potential of Friendship
• Unexpected Friendships
• Stranger and Friend Dynamics
• Empathy and Understanding

Potential of Friendship

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

You choose someone out of the crowd and you call them your friend. Who was once a stranger is now a part of your heart. That’s called friendship.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't met

strangers were just people he hadn’t become friends with yet.

Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection

Isn't friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was something special about these strangers; you felt a connection, something in common, a special bond, and your friendship began. What if, as we pass all of the ‘strangers’ in our lives, if we looked at these strangers as if they could be a friend? What a different world it would be….

Strangers are potential friends and potential enemies, but treat them as potential friends.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

The extraverted are right, however, when they say that “a stranger is just a friend I haven’t met yet.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen.

Unexpected Friendships

How dare I presume to say: He is my friend, or even, more cautiously, I think I know him? At the very most we are like two strangers meeting in the white wintry veld and sitting down together for a while to smoke a pipe before proceeding on their separate ways. No more.Alone. Alone to the very end. I… every one of us. But to have been granted the grace of meeting and touching so fleetingly: is that not the most awesome and wonderful thing one can hope for in this world?

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

I am often the friend you come to for advice and the stranger you feel inclined to tell your life story to. I cherish those moments with humans in their pure humanity.

I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.

Isn't it strange, that strangers become friends and friends become strangers and it's infinite and keeps evolving, and just like the world never stops turning, I will never stop loving the idea of the perfect you? Knowing you were real for a moment is enough. - Nikki Kirkpatrick Can't Fight Fate

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.

When you meet a new friend, the world has more light in it, doesn’t it? Things become more spontaneous, and more full of laughing and freedom and novelty.

In places such as Kazakhstan and Mongolia people depend on each other a lot more. We can often be quite detached in the West, with e-mail and telephones, whereas in those countries people rely on each other more. It's lovely because you feel like, although you're a stranger, they respect you as a friend and want to help you.

Stranger and Friend Dynamics

There is a stranger who is more than a friend, and a friend who is worse than a stranger.

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

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!

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

A stranger becomes a friend and a friend becomes a foe.

You can just be your self’s stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

The stranger has no friend, unless it be a stranger.

We can’t all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws.

Misanthropes have some admirable if paradoxical virtues. It is no exaggeration to say that we are among the nicest people you are likely to meet. Because good manners build sturdy walls, our distaste for intimacy makes us exceedingly cordial "ships that pass in the night." As long as you remain a stranger we will be your friend forever.

Empathy and Understanding

Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.

Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch us, to wait on us, to approach us with the proximity of a nurse to a patient. It is not every friend whose eye is a light in a sickroom, whose presence is there a solace.

Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

The people who can step up my experience are those who have a common set of experiences with people I know. Think about it. How often did a total stranger come into your life to make your evening better? Not very often. But the friend of your friend? That happens all the time.

It is not going to be a stranger or some sinister person who offers it. It is going to be your best friend. We have to be sure to prepare them for how they are going to say no to their best friend.

You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Those most likely to befriend strangers, in other words, are those who have been strangers themselves. The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it means to be lost yourself.

Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don’t know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other’s tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else’s friend and brother. So which life is more important?

Greatest among us are those who can deploy “my friend” to total strangers in a way that is not hollow, but somehow real and deeply felt; those who can make you, within seconds of first contact, believe it.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

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