Top 1200 Life Is Full Of Surprises Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.

I want to live my life on full. I want to die empty, whatever that means - giving myself to my three kids now, giving myself to love or a relationship, giving myself to my career, devoting myself to being a healthy person. I have to give my full self to something, because that's what makes me feel alive.

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.

To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.

I believe such illumination comes if you're open to the surprises the universe throws at you. You must be able to let go of the past, whatever success you may have seen, whatever your comfort, whatever your habits. To me, that's the key to loving life: Enabling yourself to step bravely into the unknown. Only there will you find yourself again.

...revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough. It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.

Life is full of circles

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.

Life is full of horrible mistakes.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people.

My life is full of broken halos.

I've got a full life.

Life is full of contrasts.

Life is long if it is full.

Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.

Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial or a sorrow or a duty, believe me that angel's hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty beneath its covering, that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim, that is all.

I guess life is full of maybes.

Don't waste your time consuming what makes you weak. Spend your time pressing in for the Presence. Become so intimate with Jesus, so full of Him, that it does not matter what challenges in life present themselves to you. You will be so spiritually full that you can feed a multitude of other people's needs. Jesus will give you more than enough.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.

The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.

You have to live life to its full chorizo.

On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?

Most Robin Hood stories are not very exciting. There are not a lot of surprises.

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Life is full of things that you can't predict.

I have a rich, full, textured life.

Life comes full circle.

My life is so full of sacrifices.

Life is a full meal.

When the narrator says, 'This is a story without surprises,' most of the time, this is not what happens.

'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it.

Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you are going to pretend it's youth, you are going to miss it. You are going to miss the surprises, the possibilities, and the evolution that we are just beginning to know about because there are no role models, no guideposts, and no signs.

Life's a pudding full of plums.

Wait, do they even know I'm coming with you?" "No. But they like surprises. Almost always.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

There are always some surprises in the draw when people are playing pretty well.

You can have a full life after 50.

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.

In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.

The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.