Unanticipated Joy Quotes

One wants to be surprised.

It is not easy to convey a sense of wonder, let alone resurrection wonder, to another. It’s the very nature of wonder to catch us off guard, to circumvent expectations and assumptions. Wonder can’t be packaged, and it can’t be worked up. It requires some sense of being there and some sense of engagement.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

I've been very excited to have children for a long time. It definitely added an interesting twist to the night we screened 'Lyle' at Outfest, and I got up to do the Q&A, and I had this huge belly no one was expecting. It creeped everybody out in the best way.

Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love.

I enjoy being surprised.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Passion surprises. One doesn't search it. It can happen to you tomorrow.

I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

I like to surprise myself. I like to surprise my fans, too.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?