Positive Surprises Quotes

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

Sometimes there are really happy mistakes.

Always plan for the worst, child; that way, all your surprises will be pleasant ones.

Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.

All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it.

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

We all have expectations but sometimes the greatest thing is to be surprised with what happens and to find out that it is quite different from the way you imagined it.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

It's cool to be on a team where we don't know who's going to score it.

To expect wickedness from human beings is the best way I know of to avoid surprises. And when I am surprised, it's always pleasantly.

You never know when you start a project just how good it can be.