Unexpected Gifts Quotes

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Erich Fromm

Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage

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life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

May Sarton

Unexpected, Life Is

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The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

Sean Connery

Heart, Keys, Unexpected

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As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Etty Hillesum

Gratitude, Expectations, Threatening

Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.466, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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Our families need to ask for the gift of the Spirit! Through prayer, even in the busiest times, we give time back to God, we find the peace that comes from appreciating the important things, and we encounter the joy of God’s unexpected gifts. Through daily prayer may our homes become, like the house of Martha and Mary, places where Jesus always finds a warm welcome.

Pope Francis

Jesus, Prayer, Home

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In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

Michael Haneke

Cinema, Actors, Compromise

"Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

Truman Capote

Cities, Tree, Secret

Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.205, Vintage

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