Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one…

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

— Anna Freud

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

— Arthur Erickson

Don't expect love. It comes unexpectedly

— Anonymous

“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“This is a critical year--maybe the last critical year if we get this wrong--when we are all challenged to recognize how we have benefitted…

— Shellen Lubin

“I get it, you know. I'm operating on privilege too. It may be a number of notches down from yours but it's every bit…

— Sabrina Vourvoulias

It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright…

— Anne Lamott

Sure, the job of high school teachers is not to tear down students' self-esteem. But it's certainly not to inflate students' sense of self-worth…

— LZ Granderson

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

— Roxane Gay

“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

— James Joyce

unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.”

— DaShanne Stokes

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

— Ayn Rand