“Pain and pleasure, good and evil, come to us from unexpected sources. It is not there where we have gathered up our brightest hopes, that the dawn of happiness breaks. It is not there where we have glanced our eye with affright, that we find the deadliest gloom. What should this teach us? To bow to the great and only Source of light, and live humbly and with confiding resignation.” ShouldLightEyePainEvilPleasureTeachBreakSourceDawnUnexpectedGood And EvilBowsGloomResignationPain And PleasureConfiding Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.” MindPleasureStylePleaseBenefitsSurpriseUnexpected Book:Selected poetry and prose Source: Selected poetry and prose
“India is a place where one of the great pleasures for a foreigner is that you're constantly surprised. Everywhere you look is something that is either funny, or very moving, but there is always so much that is so unexpected. That's part of the reason why people who like it tend to love it.” PeopleLooksReasonMovingPleasureIndiaReason WhyUnexpectedForeignersVery Moving Author:Wes Anderson
“Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.” CultureFoundGrowsChancePleasureGrowing UpPathFlowerSeedsUnexpectedSparksGladness Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler