Unexpected Joy Quotes

#1. What do you think of that? It's stopped raining."
I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. I prayed in silence that perhaps even now, the queen might have a son and might know joy like this, such a strange, unexpected joy- the happiness of caring for a child whose whole life was in my hands.

Philippa Gregory

#3. If I could, I would summon the sun for you."

Her step faltered and she looked slowly over to him with a smile full of unexpected joy. "Thank you, but I don't need the sun today."

"And why is that?"

"You're here," she said simply, as if that were answer enough.

Evangeline Collins

#4. I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

Dani Shapiro

#5. Out of misery, comes unexpected joy.

Milly Silver

#6. 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.

#7. May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#8. Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

Betty Friedan

#9. You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

Vera Farmiga

#10. One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.

Denis Leary

#11. 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

#12. You can be a rich scumbag just as easily as a poor scumbag, or you can be a decent human being either way. Money's got nothing to do with it. It's nice to have, but it's not what makes you who you are.

Tana French

#13. I like the moment when I break a man's ego

Bobby Fischer

#14. Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.

Adam Gidwitz

#15. I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

Meg White

#16. Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.

Dana Reeve

#17. I didn't have a home in the world, so I wanted a home in a person. I felt like I had found that, and then it was taken away from me.

Jens Lekman

#18. 'Yes. He was happy. He said, on that last visit, that some things were worth the wait. The world changes in unexpected ways, and all we can do is live in it and take joy in how it surprises us.'

Amy Rae Durreson

#19. I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling.

Dorothea Dix

#20. I do not think it is logical to try and outsmart the smartest people. Instead, my weapons are irony and paradox. The joy of life is partly in the strange and unexpected. It is in the constant exclamation 'Who would have thought it?'

Hugh Jackman

#21. A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

Dean Alford

#22. I'm tired of playing the brat.

Casey Affleck

#23. This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.

Leon Jouhaux

#24. Find comfort in little things and joy in unexpected moments.

Holly Elissa Bruno

#25. It is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

Alice Walker

#26. Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

Georgie Anne Geyer

#27. Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Jim Bishop

#28. like a soulmate he's your penguin

Christina Perri

#29. Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness".

Clementine Holzinger

#30. Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Elizabeth Bibesco

#31. I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Seamus Heaney