Unexpected Events Quotes:

Unexpected events can set you back or set you up. It's all a matter of - perspective.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

source: Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

topic: Perspective, Matter, Events, Unexpected Events

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone.

- Viggo Mortensen

topic: Fate, Guy, Suffering, Rambling, Randomness

Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

- Faith Sullivan

topic: Things In Life, Expectations, Unexpected, Unexpected Things, Positive Expectations

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Birthday, Optimism, Unexpected, Unexpected Things, Pleasant Surprises

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

- Laura Chinchilla

topic: Trying, Overcoming, Events, Unexpected Events

Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.

- Colleen Hoover

source: Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

topic: Judging, Mind, Events, Unexpected Events

Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: Faith, Father, Inspiration, Direct Effect, Our Father

In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our mind and our hearts open spontaneously to be possibilities. It is an ever new state of mind, in the present moment, because we have detached from all we know. But it is also a feeling as old as can be, because, before all betrayals and all disappointments, there was a time in which trusting another was the very substance of our life.

- Piero Ferrucci

topic: Disappointment, Betrayal, Heart, Unexpected Events

We must be listened to: above and beyond our personal experience, we have collectively witnessed a fundamental unexpected event, fundamental precisely because unexpected, not foreseen by anyone. It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere.

- Primo Levi

topic: Fundamentals, Events, Unexpected, Personal Experiences, Foreseen

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life.

- Chris Van Allsburg

topic: House, Events, Routine, Unexpected Events

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

- Guy Finley

source: FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Mar 02, 2013

topic: Hurt, Philosophical, Thinking, Unexpected Events

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

- Tim Berners-Lee

topic: Running, Data, Organization, Unexpected Events

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

- Ron Perlman

topic: Birthday, Age, Events, Shape Of Things, Unexpected Events

Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you are wise and civilized men; an instant suffices to disturb and annihilate that supposed wisdom of which you are so proud; an unexpected event, a sharp and sudden emotion of the soul will abruptly change the most reasonable and intelligent man into a raving idiot.

- Michel Foucault

source: Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.201, Psychology Press

topic: Wise, Men, Intelligent, Geneva, Unexpected Events