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May you find great value in these Surprise quotes and sayings.
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
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The fact that I exist is a perpetual surprise.
- Rabindranath Tagore
May your season shine with delight and surprise.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The True Surprise is that
So Many of Us have Evolved So Rapidly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Society is always taken by surprise
at any new example of common sense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset
I hope that you walk around the corner
and you get very surprised.
- Miranda Richardson
When we got into office, the thing
that surprised me most
was to find that things were just as bad
as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho
One of the advantages of being disorganized is that
one is always having surprising discoveries.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
This day I will marry my friend,
the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love.
- Anonymous
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself,
but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
- George Orwell
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
We have two ears and one mouth so that
we can listen twice as much as we speak.
- Epictetus
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Hatred burns the one who hates.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
How is it that one rails against that
which is nearly a certainty?
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Joy increases and suffering decreases
as one masters the distinction between events
and one's feelings about those events.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True wisdom cannot be learned in a lifetime,
but can be revealed in a moment,
for it has always lived within each and every one of us.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
One cannot have a mind that is empty of all thoughts,
but one can have a mind that is content with
whatever thoughts fill it at the moment.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never be fooled into believing that
there is one speck out of order.
- Byron Katie
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off
a portion of one's being,
but by integration of the contraries.
- Carl Jung
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
When angry, count to ten before you speak.
If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
- Helen Keller
The essence of being human is that one
does not seek perfection.
- George Orwell
About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"
there is merely one's personal truth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
One who is too insistent on his own views,
finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another
as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
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