Top 100 Surprises Life Quotes
#1. Because the truth is, the surprises life gives are always better than the things you think you see coming. Publishing
Jon Acuff
#2. As we know all too painfully, life hands you surprises. But you know what I've found out? Not all the surprises life has in store are bad ones. Sometimes you think you have things figured out, and then, zap! Things change.
Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin
#3. There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
T.C. Boyle
#4. Life is always full of surprises. We have our ups and downs, but the biggest pleasure is enjoying the ups to keep us going.
J. Hale Turner
#5. There's really not much in life that's as violent or traumatic as an encounter with somebody who really surprises you and opens up that strange dynamic that's involved in romantic love.
John Maus
#6. Life is varied, colorful, and full of surprises. It is always good to remember that your existence matters, so better get moving and move forward with your life.
Kcat Yarza
#7. Today is a special day for you and for the universe. Today you started your life's journey and the universe got a precious gift and that is you. I am wishing you a day of joy to fill your life with pleasant surprises.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Have the capacity to adapt to change, it's your healthy growth, intelligently and emotionally.
Our life can be full of extrinsic surprises, your flexibility is a key when you accept changes.
Angelica Hopes
#9. Life was full of surprises, with too many bruises and not enough Band-Aids.
Nikki Sixx
#10. All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.
Lois Lowry
#11. Life is full of surprises" she said softly."It's hardly ever black and white.
Brenda Joyce
#12. We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal ... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.
Pawel Pawlikowski
#13. But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. ( ... ) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.
John Heilpern
#14. If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.
Shilpa Agarwal
#15. Live your life as if you are ready to say goodbye to it at any moment, as if the time left for you were some pleasant surprise.
Marcus Aurelius
#16. Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.
Susan Meddaugh
#17. To walk alone through life is a challenge; it sometime means adrenaline and a path full of surprises, but being with somebody means a lot more. And being with the right person means everything.
Andres
#18. Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.
Edie Falco
#19. Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.
Keri Russell
#21. How on earth do people imagine we equip children for life if we never show them the sorts of issues other people encounter, if we never talk through with them how they might deal with difficulty or violence or unexpected shocks and surprises?
Margo Lanagan
#22. This is life. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wonderful surprises and mind.numbing disappointment. the uncertainty of it all is why I hide, trying to avoid all the pain and the heartache.
Denise Grover Swank
#23. We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure - full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
Henry Bromell
#24. God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.
Carrie Underwood
#25. Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing. That's one of the greatest things about life its wonderful surprises.
Marlo Thomas
#26. Be yourself and you'll discover a world of surprises, mysteries and strengths.
Dee Dee Artner
#27. Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable ... or make it your last.
T.A. Barron
#28. Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.
Alvaro Mutis
#29. Only one thing surprises me more than the stupidity with which most men live their lives and that is the intellegence inherent in that stupidity. [ ... ] The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest accident becomes imbued with great significance.
Fernando Pessoa
#30. Life is endlessly capable of surprises, so he knew one day he would come face to face with his physical equal. With somebody who might worry him. But he looked and saw this wasn't the day. So he just smiled and looked away again.
Lee Child
#31. The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.
Rajneesh
#32. If there's one thing life is good at, it's surprising you," Jack said. "And sometimes it surprises you in the best ways.
Chris Colfer
#33. Good or bad, it's the little surprises that keep life interesting.
Tadahiko Nagao
#34. Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.
Jim Woodring
#35. 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
#36. We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddle
of fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracing
the surprises of each moment.
Gina Greenlee
#37. The routine helped the healing process. It gave me structure. It eliminated any sense of surprise, which at that point, I really didn't want anymore surprises in my life. Routine gave me the foundation for creat- ing a healthier life.
Sharon E. Rainey
#38. What we write should surprise us, the way life surprises us.
Marty Rubin
#39. What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
Aldo Rossi
#40. Life Life Life Life; it fascinates me, it intoxicates me, it upsets me and it surprises me. However, I love Life because I know it has a meaning in whatever consequences it puts us in. At the end of the day Life is the most beautiful teacher and I want to Romance her!
Dr. S.U.A.H Syed
#41. Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#42. The hard truth is, the life thing moments happen. They are the details, the surprises, the every now and again "dang it" moments that are necessary for you to be able to appreciate good times and accomplish greater things.
Jaha Knight
#43. We do not always get what we want. Sometimes life presents us with surprises.
Michael Scott
#44. Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
Bill Watterson
#45. Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.
Walter Brueggemann
#46. Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.
Ori Hofmekler
#47. Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.
Niki De Saint Phalle
#48. Life is full of problems, although life was wonderful in Barcelona in those days, and problems were called surprises.
Roberto Bolano
#49. A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment.
George Eliot
#50. A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.
Alexander Wang
#51. Everything used to seem to final, inevitable, predestined. But now, I'm starting to believe that life may have more surprises in store than I ever realized.
Jasmine Warga
#52. I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#54. It's all for the best, I know it is. I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. I know all this. But still ...
Elizabeth Gilbert
#56. I'm thinking that it might actually be possible for things to work out sometimes. Definitely not everything and maybe not the way you imagined. But sometimes, when you least expected it, life surprises you.
Susane Colasanti
#57. ... nothing surprises God. You have to remember, He knew what was ahead of you, and He has a plan to help you deal with it.
Brenda Minton
#58. I love to explore new and strange things in detail.
This habit reduces element of surprises in my life.
Toba Beta
#59. Life is full of surprises and exciting moments and sometimes we simply overlook them. We are so busy doing things.
Chris Coleman
#60. In the world I've known most of my life, old stories quickly lose their power over capital markets and get replaced by new surprises. That which everyone fixates on gets priced into the stock market quickly and can't drag on.
Kenneth Fisher
#61. Romantic love reaches out in little ways, showing attention and admiration. Romantic love remembers what pleases a woman, what excites her, and what surprises her. Its actions whisper; you are the most special person in my life.
Charles Stanley
#62. Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,
Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#63. All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to.
Paulo Coelho
#64. There are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
Ellen Glasgow
#65. We should never, ever believe life - or history holds no surprises for us. That was lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the truth."
"Which truth?"
"Any truth. All truth." her voice was solemn
Kay Hooper
#66. When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.
Eoin Colfer
#68. What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness
that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night of non-being.
Vladimir Nabokov
#69. I always love to be careful with my expectations so that life has pleasant surprises for me.
Sebastian Thrun
#71. Mistakes can be very beautiful. Mistakes lead to surprises. Even joy. And joy makes life worth living.
Ryan Winfield
#72. Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.
Barbara Rogan
#73. To would-be writers..........don't worry about imagination, real-life and human nature will provide you with more shocks and surprises than you could ever conjure in your head. Just look around and observe.
Oliver E. Cadam
#74. Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
Pablo Escobar
#75. One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing!
C. JoyBell C.
#76. Life is nothing but surprises. Even our tragedies turn out different than we expect.
Marty Rubin
#77. But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#78. Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.
Sara Zarr
#79. Surprises are everywhere in life. And they usually come from misjudging people for being less than they appear.
Brownell Landrum
#80. This year life may not go exactly as planned. But that's okay; I love surprises.
Charles F. Glassman
#81. IF YOU ASK ME A PERSON DOESNT GET ENOUGH SURPRISES IN A LIFE TIME.
James Patterson
#82. Life is full of challenges and surprises.
Jil Sander
#83. The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
Eric Hoffer
#84. 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
#85. I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
Kate Del Castillo
#86. Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided; sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.
Steve Goodier
#87. Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.
Deborah Wiles
#88. It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
Erwin McManus
#89. My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.
Kim Wilde
#90. If a life can be a series of perpetual surprises, that's the most joyous experience you can have.
Deepak Chopra
#91. Life is a house of cards, balanced on a tetter-totter,
precariously perched on a roller coaster.
The only thing that should surprise us about our surprises is that we are surprised by them.
Beth Cardall's Diary
Richard Paul Evans
#92. Pining for what could have been only holds people back from living their lives now. Life is full of surprises, and it doesn't help us to fixate on regrets or try to recover what has been lost.
Jeff Goins
#93. I'll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises
Thom Yorke
#94. The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny.
Eugenie Laverne Mitchell
#95. The whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death
Murray Leinster
#96. I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.
Loretta Lynn
#97. Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.
Chris Hadfield
#98. You're afraid? But that's what life is. There are bad surprises, yes. Awful surprises sometimes. But what makes the good surprises so good is that they're unexpected.
A.L. Player
#99. Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.
Ron Carlson
#100. Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.
Lois Lowry
