... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.

Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something.

Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted

Letting someone you don’t really like surprise you is evolved,

Problems are often opportunities coming at us in packaging that isn’t what we expect or want.

I felt the disorientation of a generous offer that in no way lines up with anything you want to do: like a promotion to senior alligator wrestler, or an all-expenses-paid trip to Gary, Indiana.

The next time you face something that is unexpected, unwanted and uncertain....consider that it just might be a gift.

They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting to get.

I began to trust the world again, not to give me what I wanted, for I saw that it could not be trusted to do that, but to give unforeseen goods and pleasures that I had not thought to want.

You assume the love you receive will come from the person you gave it to. But it doesn’t always come from that person. Similarly, there are people who love you who you don’t give the same love in return.

Sometimes you just have to open up to someone even if you don't know where this journey will lead you. A lot of people are scared of that. And you can never expect a man to be perfect - after all men don't get the perfect woman either,

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

Love was so unlike the article served up in books: the joy, though genuine, was different; the mystery an unexpected mystery.