If you want to love and understand yourself better, seek out unfamiliar people in unfamiliar places.
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.
He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood to which an old man returns.
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar, unwilling to explore the unfamiliar. In science, we respect the research ...
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it...
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
There aren’t weird things; there are only familiar and unfamiliar things!
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?
The unfamiliarity of the subconscious mind can turn one into one's worst enemy of happiness and success.
Growth can't be constrained when the journey unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths.
It’s like, it doesn't honor God to pretend like everything is OK. That’s the beauty of Jesus that so many people miss. The beauty is that he died on the cross for our sins, but also that he existed the way we exist. He understands what it’s lik...
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.