That's the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.
My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.
You are an endless project. . . changing, evolving, surprising.
Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
It's great when you know somebody and they keep surprising you.
In this dark world where he now dwelt, ugly things and surprising things and once in a long while a tiny wondrous thing spilled out at him constantly; he could count on nothing.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
In fact, the very nature of an X-event is that it is both rare and surprising. So I would not say that any specific X-event is likely. What I would say, though, is that some X-event is not only plausible, but very likely in a time scale of a few years.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.
I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.
Success and failure are equally surprising.
Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.
Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.
Most surprising is probably that I thought I had experienced most of the low points life has to offer. . . but you reach new lows when you are hungover changing a nappy and throw up into it.
I don't have hardly any caffeine, I don't drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying.
People learn by playing, thinking and amazing themselves. They learn while they're laughing at something surprising, and they learn while they're wondering 'What the heck is this?'
There isn't much political coloration in my economic writing; it's not surprising that few people know my political views. They really aren't very important.