Top 84 Things Life Unexpected Quotes
#1. If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.
Robert Stikmanz
#2. For someone who'd spent most of his adult life fearful of getting girls pregnant, I thought my unexpected paternal trial was turning out reasonably well.
Richelle Mead
#3. The most fulfilling adventures happen when you start your journey without knowing where you're going, because only then are you free to experience the unexpected detours you're meant to take.
A.J. Darkholme
#4. So, there you have it, you get up and go to school, thinking it's just another ordinary day and the next thing you know, something totally unexpected happens! Life's like that. I guess it's like Forrest Gump said about the box of chocolates-you just never know what you're going to get!
Melody Carlson
#5. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the bliss of satiation, even as his spirit starves. No, Pearl did not hate. Life was a negotiation between the expected and the unexpected. One made do. Draconus
Steven Erikson
#6. The life she'd led, each of the places she'd called home sending unexpected shoots toward the next, had made her open to almost anything.
Andrea Barrett
#7. Life's unexpected, Gray. Hearts come and go. if you want hers, then take it.
Ella Frank
#8. If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!
Naomi Judd
#9. Being asked out by a Shadowhunter had been among the top ten strangest and most unexpected things that had ever happened to Magnus, and Magnus had always endeavored to live a very unexpected life.
Cassandra Clare
#10. Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
Alex Flinn
#11. So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.
Anna Godbersen
#12. Life is always bringing unexpected gifts.
May Sarton
#13. Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
#14. We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
C.S. Lewis
#15. What you consider as real may not exist at all, and what you cannot see today may turn out to be the purpose of your life one day.
Mayank S. Sengar
#16. Sometimes life offers you something unexpected, and when it does, you have a responsibility to explore it.
Katy Regnery
#17. The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.
Thomas Merton
#18. Life ... Isn't a roller coaster, it isn't unexpected or surprising. It's not a free ticket to go along for the ride ... Simply put, Life is life. Its who you are, what you do that defines you and your life, so choose ... but choose wisely, because life is here to stay ...
Bilal Hussain
#19. The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Seamus Heaney
#20. That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.
Alexander McCall Smith
#21. Life is not meant to be an interstate highway. It's a winding mountain road with hills and dips, stop signs and school zones. Let friends and family be the data for your GPS satellite feed, and never forget that sometimes an unexpected detour leads to a hidden miracle.
Emily March
#22. There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.
John Bellairs
#23. But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
Marcel Proust
#25. In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.
Jason Schwartzman
#26. As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.
Etty Hillesum
#27. When people are like, Life is good, I go, No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that's when you savor, savor, savor.
Sandra Bullock
#28. I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.
Jeff Goldblum
#29. Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them beat you to a bloody pulp. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency
P.S. Martinez
#30. When you tidy, you gain a little confidence. You start to believe in the future. Things begin to go more smoothly. The people you meet change. Unexpected things happen in a positive way. Change begins to accelerate. And you begin to really enjoy your life.
Marie Kondo
#31. You can't prepare for the things that change your life. They come suddenly and unannounced.
Marty Rubin
#32. RVM Thoughts for Today
Joy and Bliss can come from the little and most unexpected things if only we Program our Mind to enjoy these little things.
R.v.m.
#33. You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho
#34. The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap
Amy Carmichael
#35. She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.
Paulo Coelho
#36. In life, you should expect anything to come up in any time, after that nothing will be an unexpected guest for you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. Part of what drives us to explore and discover is the intangible: expanding our horizons, feeding our curiosity, finding all those unexpected things, and trying to answer those profound questions discussed in previous chapters, like how did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone?
Nancy Atkinson
#38. I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.
Pam Houston
#39. A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.
David Gemmell
#40. If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.
Luigina Sgarro
#41. I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.
Howard Norman
#42. Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.
Colleen Hoover
#43. 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
#44. You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
Lisa Edelstein
#45. I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#47. It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life.
Patti Smith
#48. Each day is unexpected. No matter how hard you try, you can never prepare for the life ahead.
E.L. Montes
#49. Life is mundane without the new and unexpected. I guess that has been and continues to be my downfall ... I'm constantly searching ...
Adria J. Cimino
#50. I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.
Emily Giffin
#51. Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#52. Life at times, gives the most unexpected and shocking outcome for the most ordinary person, leading to extraordinary tales.
Arvind Parashar
#53. 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
#54. To accept the lively, the messy, and the unexpected things in our days, knowing that God sees them and has an eternal perspective, is to say with confidence I receive your timing.
Emily P. Freeman
#55. After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from Lux and that show. I wanted to be able to keep my fans, but not have them confused about who I was or what my character was.
Britt Robertson
#56. 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
#57. Life is not a straight line. It's a spiderweb that twists and tangles. We crawl along our strands until we touch the people who are meant to be in our lives. The strands can knot, as mine did with Lily's, but they don't break, and the unexpected paths are often the best ones.
Stephanie Knipper
#58. My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.
Kate Christensen
#59. A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous suspicion that his entire life was about to change if he didn't get out of there, now. Away from the unexpected, undeniable lure of the dowdy young woman in front of him.
Anne Stuart
#60. There's a funny thing I've noticed about life. When you really dread something, it turns out not to be so bad. It's the unexpected awful things that get you down.
Elizabeth Laird
#61. In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.
Joan Rivers
#62. The more you want it [romantic relationship], the more you are looking for it, the more you repel it for whatever reason. I don't know why. If you kind of create this vacuum, let life take its course, then you tend to free yourself up for the unexpected.
Katherine Heigl
#63. I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected.
Gordon Lightfoot
#64. Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.
Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.
Toba Beta
#65. Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
Ada Leverson
#66. I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without warning, and often times marked with disappointment and tragedy, but equally often leading to a better understanding of the bittersweet truth of life.
Rob Lowe
#67. The people who watched 'Dawson's Creek' when it originally aired aren't too old to enjoy 'Life Unexpected.' And then you've got the whole next generation that's hooked on the 'Dawson's reruns seeing this show, so it's perfect for them.
Kerr Smith
#68. Letting go is hard for me. I have spent too many anxious moments and sleepless nights in worry over what would happen if I let go. Much like being part of a search-and-rescue effort, I would find myself always searching for the unexpected spins in life while preparing to rescue the outcome.
Eve M. Harrell
#69. Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#70. I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return
Amin Maalouf
#71. Life is full of unexpected. May God grant us the grace, courage and hope to endure the unexpected circumstances.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#73. Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.
Linda Ellerbee
#74. Expect the unexpected in life, love, religion, politics and many more such drivers for humanity. These will ask you to fight and you need courage to fight them.
Santosh Kalwar
#75. Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.
Mike Yaconelli
#76. Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?
startling, unexpected, unknown?
Virginia Woolf
#77. The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.
Christina Baker Kline
#78. There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe.
Tess Gerritsen
#79. If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
John Lennon
#80. 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
#81. The unexpected things in life are often the most interesting and can impact us greatly.
Art Hochberg
#83. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.
Shellie Palmer
#84. Without discussing it with his mother, Anton went up to his teacher, Miss Katballe, and informed her that after seven years he was now quitting school. It was the best day of her life, she replied. With unexpected politeness he bowed, thanked her, and said, likewise.
Carsten Jensen
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