Unexpected Quotes

• It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

  Napoleon Hill

  Important, Way, Strange

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.143, Penguin

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• The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Circus, Finest, Pleasure

  "The Night Circus". Book by Erin Morgenstern, September 13, 2011.

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• Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Adventure, Loving Life, Thinking

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• If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

  Heraclitus

  Unrealistic Expectations, Greek Philosopher, Wise Man Once Said

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• We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Truth Is, Interruptions

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• Expect the unexpected.

  Bear Bryant

  Preparation

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• Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

  Carl Sandburg

  Birthday, Optimism, Pleasant Surprises

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• Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

  Bob Dylan

  Witty, Expecting, Expected

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• Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Grateful

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• …there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

  Mark Nepo

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Pathways, Turns

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.26, Conari Press

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• The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

  John Tukey

  Data, Drawing, Diagrams

  John Wilder Tukey (1977). “Exploratory Data Analysis”, Pearson College Division

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• When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heart, Joyful, Happens

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• You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 04, 2012

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• Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.

  Daniel Handler

  Sometimes, Lost, Found

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• As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Thinking, Safe

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• The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Unpredictable

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.

  Ann Landers

  Fun, Laughing, Unattractive

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• If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

  Fay Weldon

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  Fay Weldon (2014). “Moon Over Minneapolis”, p.5, Head of Zeus

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• It is the unexpected and the surprise quality of a personal vision, rather than the emotion, which make people respond to a photograph.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, People, Vision

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• Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

  Richard Bach

  Mistake, Learning, Experience

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• If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!

  Louise Hay

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Gratitude: A Way of Life”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Long, Expectations

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.473, Courier Corporation

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• I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected to happen in order for us to realize that everything was expected. It's our relation to those things that we are able to decide how we feel and the level of intensity of those feelings. Such is relativity

  Shania Twain

  Believe, Order, Appreciate

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