Unexpected Gifts Quotes:

life is always bringing unexpected gifts.

- May Sarton

topic: Unexpected Gifts, Unexpected, Life Is

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

- Erich Fromm

topic: Letting Go, Spiritual, Courage, Creative People, Inspire Creativity

The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.

- Sean Connery

topic: Heart, Keys, Unexpected, Unexpected Gifts

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

- Etty Hillesum

source: Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.466, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

topic: Gratitude, Expectations, Unexpected, Unexpected Gifts

Our families need to ask for the gift of the Spirit! Through prayer, even in the busiest times, we give time back to God, we find the peace that comes from appreciating the important things, and we encounter the joy of God’s unexpected gifts. Through daily prayer may our homes become, like the house of Martha and Mary, places where Jesus always finds a warm welcome.

- Pope Francis

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Home, Gifts Of The Spirit, Daily Prayer

In terms of cinema and filmmaking, there are certainly the unexpected gifts that the actors bestow on you. Film is always a question of compromises with respect to what you originally intended.

- Michael Haneke

topic: Cinema, Actors, Unexpected, Unexpected Gifts

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

- Truman Capote

topic: Cities, Tree, Secret, Inquisitive, Containers