Happenings Quotes - Page 26

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

Garry Winogrand

Photography, Bangs, Saws

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I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try to forget, no matter with what fortitude we face them, what mix of religion and therapy we swallow, what finished and durable forms of art we turn them into, are going to go on happening inside of us for as long as our brains are alive.

Christian Wiman

Art, Believe, Past

Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.57, Copper Canyon Press

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Your good is happening right now, even as you accept this statement of truth.

Michael Beckwith

Inspirational, Accepting, New Thought

FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 23, 2013

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Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

George Kubler

Real, Dark, Past

Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18, (p. 36), 1977.

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There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Pat Metheny

Jazz, Form, Audience

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After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

Jhonen Vasquez

World, Care, Innocence

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And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

Sonia Braga

Mother, Play, Getting Older

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For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.

Alexander Fleming

Fall, Science, Fog

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Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.

Arthur Koestler

Fate, Destiny, Hands

"Bricks to Babel". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1980.

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Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

Lucy Powell

Moving, Thinking, Events

"Economic bail-out aims to restore confidence for small firms and savers" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Merle Haggard

Missing You, Music Is, Melody

FaceBook post by Merle Haggard from Nov 04, 2011

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While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

Thomas Merton

Spiritual, Men, Light

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We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.

Susan L. Taylor

Order, Addiction, Contentment

Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.149, Anchor

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I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

Terence McKenna

Thinking, Views, Ego

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It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.

Terence McKenna

Order, Mushrooms, Space

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Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

Deepak Chopra

Freedom, Acceptance, Reality

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In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

John William Draper

Beautiful, Nature, Strong

John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Jacques Barzun

Football, Distance, Games

Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

Neil Young

Past, Next, Reason

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When you see something or experience something extraordinary, you can't go back to normal... I think that that's the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unprepared.

Guillermo del Toro

Thinking, People, Way

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Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

Richard Rohr

Creativity, Creation, Process

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The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

Brian Tracy

Happiness, Quality, Events

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Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Eye, Looks, World

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Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.....Rather than persecuting yourself or feeling that something terribly wrong is happening, right there in the moment of sadness and longing, could you relax and touch the limitless space of the human heart?

Pema Chodron

Running, Cheating, Loneliness

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Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.

Marianne Williamson

Eye, Thinking, Miracle

FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 07, 2012

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