Quotes About Surprise

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Happiness is seeing your son drafted the same day he's been accepted to an expensive college.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

Happiness is being stuck in an elevator and discovering the ravishing blonde with you is a liquor salesman with a case of samples.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Don't think about happiness. If it doesn't come, there's no disappointment; if it does come, it's a surprise.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.

Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.

Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the telegram, 'I am feeling very happy - why?'

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere. I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.

If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

The true joy lies in the unpredictability of nature.

If you want to brighten up a person's day.Give them a rainbow.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise.