Quotes About Unexpected

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready.

Kita hanya bisa memahami keajaiban hidup secara penuh ketika membiarkan yang tak terduga untuk terjadi.

If you think ADVENTURE is Dangerous, Try Routine. It is LETHAL. Be Brave. Take Risks. Nothing can substitute Experience. You have to Take Risks. We will only understand the Miracle of life fully when we allow the UnExpected to happen.

When things happen without planning or expectations they are that much more enjoyable.

I remember the many occasions on which help has come from people whom I though had nothing to add to my life.

We are our own greatest surprise.

Es necesario correr riesgos, decía. Sólo entendemos del todo el milagro de la vida cuando dejamos que suceda lo inesperado. Todos los días Dios nos da, junto con el sol, un momento en el que es posible cambiar todo lo que nos hace infelices. Todos los días tratamos de fingir que no percibimos ese momento, que ese momento no existe, que hoy es igual que ayer y será igual que mañana.

Well, it's a choice like any other, even though it's stupid to believe we can control the world and to allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security that leaves us totally unprepared for life; because then, when you least expect it, an earthquake throws up a range of mountains, a bolt of lightning kills a tree that was preparing for its summer rebirth, or a hunting accident puts paid to the life of an honest man.

You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)

One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you cope with.

He hadn't planned anything like that, and when things happen without planning or expectations they are that much more enjoyable and worthwhile—talking to a stranger without an eye to any romantic connection had allowed things to flow more naturally.

Unintended consequences, he thought miserably. He was angry at his anger, the way it surged up and took over.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

The best art always comes unbidden.

What's interesting about art in public spaces is that the public really sort of takes over and uses it in ways that you didn't anticipate.

One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.

La vida daba bandazos muy extraños. Cuando menos te lo esperabas, te tropezabas con tus sueños.

though she were another person, a deus ex machina