Surprises Of Life Quotes

#1. Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light.

Samuel Longfellow

#2. I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.

Eliot Wigginton

#3. Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not.

Richard Ford

#4. 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

#5. We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time ... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.

Oswald Chambers

#6. I just think there's always room for humanity in acting, one can only hope, so when you bring in the whole life of a person that's playing a character, then surprises happen and are allowed to happen, and so it makes it more interesting.

Lisa Edelstein

#7. When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.

Douglas Harding

#8. One of the biggest and most pleasant surprises is that, even when you have that need to keep up an appearance of being right or knowing, there is life after admitting you don't know and that's beautiful.

Ben Lee

#9. Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

Cathleen Schine

#10. Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

JR

#11. I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day.

Dwight Schultz

#12. Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Ron Carlson

#13. 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

#14. I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.

Loretta Lynn

#15. The whole purpose of civilization is to take the surprises out of life, so one can be bored to death

Murray Leinster

#16. I'll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises

Thom Yorke

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. If a life can be a series of perpetual surprises, that's the most joyous experience you can have.

Deepak Chopra

#20. My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Kim Wilde

#21. 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

#22. Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Deborah Wiles

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.

Tony Robbins

#26. Travel is a joy, full of surprises and astonishing new experiences. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster; the risks add spice.

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#27. 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

#28. A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#29. If you have that group of people who are both nice and also creative, then you have surprises like a room with monkeys in them. That has taken a very good scene and just made it a great scene. I want my movies to be visually interesting and to have a lot of energy and be colorful and full of life.

Richard Shepard

#30. The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with ... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.

Will Self

#31. Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises..:

James Hollis

#32. Once you take the cat out of the bag, you can't cram it back in.

Jen Calonita

#33. With all of those events, I didn't realize I was seeing something amazing for the first and last time. And I'm saying that those things, those random, crazy surprises that have nothing to do with life decisions or your past or your future, might be worth sticking around for.

Anne Frasier

#34. Everything about her, the way she walked, the way she stood, her eyes and mouth and whole face, seemed to be saying, without trying or intending to, that if you happened to be hers, and she yours, life would be full of pleasant and interesting surprises.

Rex Stout

#35. Life is full of changes. And surprises. And the inexplicable(s).

Hlovate

#36. What I like is a life that is full of surprises and [that has] no routine.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#37. Going through life is a wonderful journey full of excitement and surprises.

Mahinder Watsa

#38. Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.

David Mamet

#39. Imagine that - a werewolf who lets a girl pee in private. Little bits of coolness in my totally fucked-up life. This place was full of surprises.

Elle Casey

#40. Life is like a box of chocolates, loaded with surprises, some delightful and some downright disagreeable. The yummy ones, of course, are easy to swallow, but the yucky ones are sometimes hard to stomach.

Tammy Bennett

#41. Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Charlton Heston

#42. Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.

David Gerrold

#43. I'm a really nice guy when you meet me, and that surprises a lot of people. I'm not that eccentric in real life - and certainly not that disrespectful. In my own time, I like to just chill out with friends and not get in people's faces.

KSI

#44. If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.

Freya Stark

#45. Life always has some surprises up its sleeve!

Avijeet Das

#46. Part of the pursuit of excellence involves eliminating as many surprises as possible because life is full of the unexpected.

Alex Ferguson

#47. When you can't see in front of you life is nothing but surprises. Looking back, there were truly so few of them.

Stephanie Danler

#48. The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.

Wayde Goodall

#49. Life is full of surprises, so you may as well get used to it.

Susan Meddaugh

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. Be yourself and you'll discover a world of surprises, mysteries and strengths.

Dee Dee Artner

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. Life is full of surprises" she said softly."It's hardly ever black and white.

Brenda Joyce

#66. 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

#67. Life was full of surprises, with too many bruises and not enough Band-Aids.

Nikki Sixx

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. I love to explore new and strange things in detail.
This habit reduces element of surprises in my life.

Toba Beta

#73. 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

#74. 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.

#75. Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

Pablo Escobar

#76. Life's full of surprises, and they ain't all bad.

Barbara Rogan

#77. Life is a series of surprises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#78. 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

#79. My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Booker T. Washington

#80. When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.

Eoin Colfer

#81. Life is like a book written with lots of surprises,
Spell it wrongly and you'll be spilled otherwise.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#82. 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

#83. Life is full of surprises and exciting moments and sometimes we simply overlook them. We are so busy doing things.

Chris Coleman

#84. Life is full of challenges and surprises.

Jil Sander

#85. ... 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

#86. History is full of surprises.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#87. A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Alexander Wang

#88. 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

#89. Life is full of problems, although life was wonderful in Barcelona in those days, and problems were called surprises.

Roberto Bolano

#90. Relationship with God is not immune to the surprises and costs of our daily life.

Walter Brueggemann

#91. Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

Bill Watterson

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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