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• When you see beauty all around you, beauty will seek and find you, even in the most unexpected places.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Unexpected Places

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Jan 19, 2015

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• Curiosity’s primal. Our senses scan our surroundings, alerting us most urgently about sudden change. Useful, that. Change can mean opportunity. It can mean danger. Finding lunch or being lunch. We’re hard-wired to notice the unexpected, then take action.

  Julie Czerneda

  Mean, Opportunity, Lunch

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• Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.

  Geoff Ryman

  Jesus, Honesty, Lying

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• You know, I've learned that sometimes you can only see what you want to see by changing where you stand. And standing somewhere unexpected can lead to unexpected discoveries.

  Lisa Mangum

  Discovery, Want, Sometimes

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• An unanticipated destination, perhaps, but you must admit,all the best journeys take unexpected detours.

  Lisa Mangum

  Journey, Detours, Destination

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• There may be an art to conversation, and some are better at it than others, but conversation's virtue lies in randomness and possibility: people, without a plan, could speak a spontaneous, unexpected truth, because revelation rules. Telling words recur in this smart, generous conversation between Stephen Andrews and Gregg Bordowitz: patience, responsibility, feminism, ethics, cosmology, AIDS, gift, freedom, mortality.

  Lynne Tillman

  Art, Lying, Responsibility

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• I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Dream, Live Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

  Anna Sui

  Cities, Next, Bigs

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• When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.

  Shawn Achor

  Letting Go, People, Challenges

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• The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

  Lewis Wolpert

  Example, Physics, Intuitive

  1992 The Unnatural Nature of Science.

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• I think you will agree that life's plans are not always tied up in neat little packages. Occasionally we find ourselves at unexpected crossroads with more than one opportunity from which to choose. Time itself is often the best indicator of which decision to make, for it can tell so many thing that are now hazy.

  Linda Chaikin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Decision

  Linda Lee Chaikin (2011). “Tomorrow's Treasure”, p.445, WaterBrook

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• Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you glued to the book.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  Book, Thinking, Twists

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• Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

  Bob Kerrey

  Powerful, Kindness, Agents

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• Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

  Timothy Leary

  Instinct, Deja Vu, Trust Your Instincts

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• Discount the obvious, bet on the unexpected

  George Soros

  Obvious, Discounts

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• If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

  Christopher Dawson

  Revenge, Animal, Men

  Christopher Dawson, Robert Royal (2009). “Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.236, CUA Press

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• It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mistake, May, Path

  Anna Quindlen (2012). “Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman's Life”, p.87, Random House

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• What I adore is mixing the unexpected, things you don't imagine should go together

  Paul Smith

  Together, Mixing, Imagine

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• One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Should Have, Literature, Has Beens

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• Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

  William C. Oates

  War, History, Affair

  Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books

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• I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The optimal way to deal with this is not to give up in despair, but to move ahead using the best intelligence and resources that we have to overcome adversity.

  Paul Kurtz

  Giving Up, Moving, Believe

  "Isn't Religion Weird? Quotations for Atheists". Book by Dave Lane (p. 117), August 8, 2008.

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• If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  Octavia Spencer

  Existence, Unexpected Places, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• Karla Jay's intimate account of life in the early years of feminism and gay liberation is as irresistible as a novel, but as credible, humorous, and unexpected as real life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Humorous, Gay

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• A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.

  Max Richter

  Dream, Memories, Data

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• If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of their time competing against each other to convince you they know in advance what they are going to discover.

  David Graeber

  People, Want, Possibility

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