Unforeseen Happiness Quotes

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.

I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

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

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.

As we sometimes find one thing while we are looking for another, so, if truth escaped me, happiness and contentment fell in my way.

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?