Accepting Quote by Michael Kenna

Life is filled with surprises, you just have to cut down your expectations.

— Anonymous

I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.

— Marion Cotillard

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

— Evan Esar

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

— Jane Austen

“Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.”

— Gary Hopkins

It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

When we are relaxed and reasonable content, we are naturally wise. We accept that life is unpredictable, unreliable. We say jokingly or philosophically, "Nothing…

— Sylvia Boorstein

Surprise comes from defying expectations.

— Seth Godin

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

— Leonard Susskind

Life is full of surprises. Why is that always surprising?

— Cathleen Schine

Expect the unexpected because life is full of surprises. Things that you can't prevent from happening because they're meant to happen, but instead of…

— Melchor Lim

A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.

— Baron Davis