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• Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Stupid, Sadness, Receiving

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  All creative people want to do the unexpected.

  Hedy Lamarr

  People, Creative, Want

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Success, Opportunity

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Organization, Waiting

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

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• Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

  George Soros

  Investing, Financial, Flux

  "Great Money Minds" by Chris Stallman at TeenAnalyst.com, May 5, 2005.

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• There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Adversity, Simple, Financial Hardship

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• I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Refrigerators, Enjoyment

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• Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.

  Karl Popper

  Men, Interesting, Events

  Karl Popper (2005). “Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography”, p.150, Routledge

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• Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Distance, Moving, Journey

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.87, Penguin

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• Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Blow, Curiosity

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.142

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• This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Life, Motivational, Encouraging

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Taken, Blessing, Second Chance

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• "I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Guy, Tough, Conferences

  "To End a War" by Richard Holbrooke, (p. 291), 1998.

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• The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

  Dana Gioia

  Simple, Sound, Details

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.92, Macmillan

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• Jesus will turn your sorrow into joy. One can only imagine the shock and bewilderment the Apostles felt when the Lord told them he must go away. Though they could not understand it at the time, his departure was for their benefit. The same is true of the unexpected setbacks and tragedies we experience in this life...When I consider the times when I have been confounded by events that seemed so contrary to what I thought God wanted for me, I should be mindful that they were permitted by the Lord's inscrutable providence for my own good, as difficult as that might be to fathom.

  Patrick Madrid

  Jesus, Joy, Sorrow

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• Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.

  Anna Bartlett Warner

  Flower, Gay, Garden

  Anna Bartlett Warner (1872). “Gardening by Myself”, p.64

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• It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

  Esther Meynell

  Memories, Memorable, Wind

  Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]

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• There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.

  Jason Silva

  Serendipity, Circumstances, Plans

  "We Can All Be the Authors of Our Own Lives" by Jason Silva, bigthink.com.

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• The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Wages, Debt, Earth

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2016). “Gene Stratton-Porter Collection: A Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles, Laddie, The Harvester, A Daughter of the Land, At the Foot of the Rainbow, Her Fatther's Daughter, Michale O'Halloran”, p.150, Xist Publishing

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• Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

  Brian Grazer

  Hurt, Disappointment, Eye

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• Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Style, Mind, Benefits

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.380, Univ of California Press

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• It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

  Jonah Hill

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. September 21, 2011.

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• The song Cant Look Back Now by the Weepies reminds me of the entire Life Unexpected experience.

  Britt Robertson

  Song, Looks, Cant

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• I think there is a need for something completely new. Something that is too different, too unexpected, to be accepted as yet.

  Anton Zeilinger

  Thinking, Different, Needs

  "Schrödinger's rabbits: the many worlds of quantum". Book by Colin Bruce, 2004.

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• Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.

  Inez Haynes Irwin

  Beautiful, Light, Cities

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