Unexpected Quotes - Page 24

• life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

  May Sarton

  Unexpected Gifts, Life Is

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• Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.

  Stephanie Mills

  Talking, Giving, Feelings

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• These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would think them perfectly earth; but ethereal fire is all the while working in them, and bursing out in most unexpected jets of poetry and sentiment, like blossoms on a cactus.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Mistake, Real

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Blessing, Keys

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.18, Hazelden Publishing

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• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

  Plutarch

  Son, Men, Riches

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• The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Essence, Mind

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.

  Amanda Palmer

  Artist, Feels

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• What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

  Nancy Mitford

  Life, Children, Nice

  Nancy Mitford, Charlotte Mosley (1993). “Love from Nancy: the letters of Nancy Mitford”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Crisis, Charlotte

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• We have to accept that making movies is a never-ending process of occasional progress, frequent setbacks, and unexpected curveballs being thrown our way. Navigating that process requires stamina, curiosity, openness, and creative fire.

  Karyn Kusama

  Fire, Creative, Curiosity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• for man, woman, and child the tender, irregular, sensitive, living foot, which does not even stand with all its little surface on the ground, and which makes no base to satisfy an architectural eye, is, as it were, the unexpected thing. ... nothing makes a more helpless and unsymmetrical sign than does a naked foot.

  Alice Meynell

  Children, Eye, Men

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com

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• Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Terror, Repeats, Knows

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

  Ada Leverson

  Real, Literature, Weak

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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• For those who have experienced the joy of being alone with nature there is really little need for me to say much more; for those who have not, no words of mine can ever describe the powerful, almost mystical knowledge of beauty and eternity that come, suddenly, and all unexpected.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Powerful, Joy

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• Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Poverty, Wealth, Heels

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• the relationship between the two men was something of a miracle in itself. It was a cordiality based, apparently, on complete non-comprehension cemented by a deep mutual respect for the utterly unknown. No two men saw less eye to eye and the result was unexpected harmony, as if a dog and a fish had mysteriously become friends and were proud each of the other's remarkable dissimilarity to himself.

  Margery Allingham

  Dog, Eye, Men

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.26, Ipso Books

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• Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

  Caryl Rivers

  Weed, Guilt, Age

  Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England

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• Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

  Starhawk

  Wise, Adventure, Magic

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

  Lynda Obst

  Change, Art, Personality

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• it seems to me that grandmothers have a very special place in the affections of young children. Not obliged, as parents are, to provide food, shelter, protection, advice and discipline, day in and day out, they can afford to be much more easy-going. The unexpected present, the extra outing, the little treat of a favourite meal prepared especially to delight the child and, above all, the time to listen to youthful outpourings, all make a grandmother a loved ally. It is hardly surprising that the bond between grandmother and grandchild is often stronger than that between parent and child.

  Miss Read

  Children, Grandmother, Discipline

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• Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment.

  Chip Conley

  Giving, Ironic, Benefits

  "The Best $73 I Ever Spent" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2009.

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• The unexpected may annoy us, but may also wake us up.

  Scott Sanders

  May, Annoying

  Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.14, Indiana University Press

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• Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

  Scott Adkins

  Art, Fighting, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Communicate, communicate, communicate: If anything, make sure to communicate what you're doing, what you're up to, what's going on and what issues your facing as often as you can - even if [you think] no one's listening. This serves both as a log of your activities and a personal record that you can refer to later but also opens the possibility that someone might just come along and be able to help you in some unexpected but totally necessary way!

  Tara Hunt

  Thinking, Issues, Listening

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