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Welcome to these Surprises Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
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Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
May your season shine with delight and surprise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I hope that you walk around the corner
and you get very surprised.
- Miranda Richardson
When we got into office, the thing
that surprised me most
was to find that things were just as bad
as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
When I am getting ready to reason with a man,
I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself
and what I am going to say
and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it.
One must work at it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
Truth is certainly a branch of morality
and a very important one to society.
- Thomas Jefferson
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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