Happenings Quotes - Page 15

• Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

  Chad Kroeger

  Writing, Wind, Sometimes

  "The MH Interview: Chad Kroeger". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. October 26, 2012.

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• Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up tomorrow with what's happening today.

  Vito Russo

  Yesterday, Forever, Hollywood

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• When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

  Jim George

  Waiting, Faithful, Needs

  Jim George (2013). “One-Minute Insights for Men”, p.7, Harvest House Publishers

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• When a person you love dies, it doesn’t feel real. It’s like it’s happening to someone else. It’s someone else’s life. I’ve never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?

  Jenny Han

  Real, Mean, Doe

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Your internal dialogue has got to be different from what you say. And, you know, in film, hopefully that registers and speaks volumes. It’s always the unspoken word and what’s happening behind someone’s eyes that makes it so rich.

  Viola Davis

  Eye, Different, Unspoken Words

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• Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Consciousness, Life Is, Metaphor

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• Science can explain what's happening down inside atoms and what's happening at the edge of the universe, but it cannot explain consciousness. It's a paradox--withou t consciousness there would be no science, but science doesn't know what to do, at all, with consciousness.

  Peter Russell

  Atoms, Would Be, Consciousness

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• Nothing matters so much that we should throw ourselves into a state of panic about it.
  No happening is so important that we should let ourselves be exiled
  from from inner peace and mental calm for its sake.

  Paul Brunton

  Inner Peace, Important, Matter

  Paul Brunton, Wisdom's Goldenrod, Ltd (1988). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Advanced contemplation. The peace within you”

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• Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Moving, Men, Earthquakes

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• Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

  Jessica Zafra

  Doe, Looks, Stuff

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• Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Matter, Giving

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• Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

  Pema Chodron

  Enlightenment, Path To Enlightenment, Path

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• But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it’s happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it’s scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it’s worth it.

  Jessi Kirby

  Giving, Choices, Scary

  Jessi Kirby (2013). “Golden”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evolution, Has Beens

  "NOW" with Bill Moyer and David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2004.

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• An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

  Nick Bantock

  Ideas, Perspective, Events

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• Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

  Laura Dave

  Waiting, Sometimes, Whole Life

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.57, Penguin

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• What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Thinking, Interesting, Answers

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• Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Character, Intelligent, Thinking

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.258, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

  Leslie Jamison

  People, Empathy, Theft

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.20, Granta Books

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• You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

  Mary Meeker

  Three, Enthusiasm, Internet

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• Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Love Is, Like Love, Energy

  Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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• No matter what may be happening today, God has good things in store for your future! It may not be easy to see now, but God has already lined up a new beginning, new friendships and new opportunities for you.

  Joel Osteen

  New Beginnings, Opportunity, New Friendship

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• Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

  Nicole Kidman

  Real, Worry, Going Away

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Aug 29, 2016

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• What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'

  John Stossel

  Mean, Compassion, Wanting Someone

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• The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

  C. Wright Mills

  Knowledge, Frustration, Political Will

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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