Surprisingly Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

In order for us to grow we have to get our feet wet. If God put all the answers in front of us, we would never learn. We need to dig a little deeper, reach a little further, think a little harder, run a little faster, and surprisingly when we utilize our capabilities and push our limits, we begin to grow in leaps and bounds. — Lindsey Rietzsch

If life deals you prunes, make pastries! They are surprisingly delicious, but most won't even take the time to learn this. — Miriam L. Jacobs

Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. — Michael Cunningham

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked - as I am surprisingly often - why I bother to get up in the mornings. — Richard Dawkins