“Be gracious in your giving for as long as you're living. The blessings will come back on an unexpected day, and present themselves in an unexpected way.”
“...how gracious seem the small gifts that may come - a patch of sunlight on a cold floor, an unexpected gesture of friendship, the fragrant steam of hot tea.”
“It‘s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.”
“If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!”
“But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways.”
“Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.”