Life's Surprises Quotes

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Things never pass where you think, nor along the paths you think

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

You can never be sure what is around the corner.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

You don't know what's coming for you in life, and you don't know what's around the corner. When you're in a great deal of pain, you're only imagining your world the way it is.

Every day and every scene, it's never the scene that you expect.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

I never rule anything out, you never know what's to come.

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.