Quotes About Surprises

Remember that life is short and full of surprises. If you wait too long, opportunities fade like setting sun.

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

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Uncertainty is fearful to the ego, which always wants to control reality, but from the viewpoint of detachment, a constantly shifting and changing universe must remain uncertain. If things were certain, there could be no creativity. Therefore spirit works through surprises and unexpected outcomes. We achieve peace of mind only when we accept the wisdom of uncertainty.

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

Surprises don't come from people we know well, certainly not people we love. We call them surprises but they are inevitabilities.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

La vie est toujours ce que vous faites de lui, mais il est souvent plein de surprises et de rebondissements inattendus. Dramaturge William Shakespeare a écrit que la vie est une histoire racontée par un idiot, plein de bruit et de fureur, qui ne signifie rien. En réalité, votre vie est une histoire écrite par nul autre que vous; et il est toujours à vous de le rendre intéressant, utile, et merveilleux.

By the time I get home, I will have grimaced through 26 sets of traffic lights and acquired the following: a hefty wood-carving of a horse; a censored girlie calendar; an inflatable Power Ranger; a chess set; nine boiled sweets; two slices of salted pineapple; a fake Rolex; three kretek cigarettes and a blowpipe.

Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That's what they'd said countless times in the past. Of course, they'd been referring to school subjects and college applications and job prospects. Presumably, at no stage did they factor living skeletons and magic underworlds into their considerations. If they had, their advice would probably have been very different.

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?" "No. But they like surprises. Almost always.

I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.

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

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Friendships-in-God are not found by seeking friendship, but by seeking God. Those who draw closer to God find such friendships simply burst upon them. These bombshells of intense affection explode without warning in our lives. But they are good surprises.

There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.

People who like surprises want you to like surprises, too.

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

so we could have roses in December. Someone did not add, So we could have blizzards in June and food poisoning when there was nothing to eat.

I OF THE HURRICANE is charming! Reads smoothly and the dog lover in me is hooked. The surprises keep coming, right to the very last page. Readers will enjoy spending time with Hurricane.

If you don't want me to buy you silly gifts with great emotional import, don't disappear in the middle of the mall.

La sua tendenza è sempre stata quella di saltare fuori in tempo dal conforto decrescente degli stati raggiunti, scappare verso le sorprese del nuovo o verso il vuoto rigenerante della solitudine, cancellare le nostalgie, ripartire da zero.