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Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 4.06 — 71,229 ratings — published 1955
Still Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 3.91 — 430 ratings — published 2015
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as surprised-by-joy)
avg rating 4.18 — 59,561 ratings — published 1861
“I wait for what comes and experience the joy and delight of the unexpected.”
― Living, Learning, Healing: Inspirational Stories from the Heart
― Living, Learning, Healing: Inspirational Stories from the Heart
“I learned from him that we should attempt a total surrender to whatever atmosphere was offering itself at the moment; in a squalid town to seek out those very places where its squalor rose to grimness and almost grandeur, on a dismal day to find the most dismal and dripping wood, on a windy day to seek the windiest ridge. There was no Betjemannic irony about it; only a serious, yet gleeful, determination to rub one's nose in the very quiddity of each thing, to rejoice in its being (so magnificently) what it was.”
― Surprised by Joy
― Surprised by Joy