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Don't worry about the unexpected changes in your life. It may catch you off-guard but when you move on with the flow, you will realize that's the main thing which made you stronger every time it hit you !! – Sinduja Rajendra Prasad	added by anonymous 12 years ago
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens. – Fay Weldon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Good humor is a paradox. The unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable. – Helitzer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. – Sir Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it. – James J. Roche	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. – Kathleen Norris	added by anonymous 14 years ago
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. – Thomas Mann	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. – Jim	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times. – Larry Niven	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. – Leon Trotsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. – Paul Wiener	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. – Barbara Tober	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected". – Gaius Julius Caesar	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. – Masaru Ibuka	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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