More quotations tagged with “surprise”
The things that go wrong often make the best memories.
—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
—Ashley Montagu
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
—Mark Twain
I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
—Louis Sachar in Holes
It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women—a new job, a new town, a divorce—which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves.
—Nadine Gordimer