Happens Quotes - Page 5

• As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

  Abdul Kalam

  Children, Child Of God, Greater

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.136, Universities Press

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• Good things happen when you go for it!

  Alan Webb

  Good Things, Things Happen

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• Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Mean, Negativity

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.77, Penguin

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• Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.

  Rick Warren

  Journey, Discovery, Despair

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• Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Dna, Enthusiasm, Things Happen

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• As we do practice something unexpected starts to happen-we get happy!

  Krishna Das

  Practice, Unexpected, Something Unexpected

  Twitter post from Oct 29, 2015

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• Just keep believing. This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now.

  Tim Tebow

  Believe, Opportunity, Great Things

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• Grace loves without reference to what may or may not happen-which is precisely why such incredible things do happen!

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, May, Incredibles

  Twitter post from Jan 20, 2018

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• Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

  Pema Chodron

  Ego, Scare, Inquiry

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Yellow, White

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.293, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Reality, Doe, Alternatives

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press

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• Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Past, Miracle

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.180, New World Library

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• Who's gonna win between two brothers? The Klitschko mother's gonna win because she said it won't happen.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Mother, Brother, Motivation

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• That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

  Ishmael Reed

  Country, Weekend, Thinking

  "Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California". Interviewed with Reginald Martin, aalbc.com. July 1, 1983.

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• The future doesn't just happen - it's shaped by decisions.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Decision

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• You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, May, Pay

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 06, 2015

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• We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.

  Alan Watts

  Roots, Anxiety, Strange

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• I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

  Paul McCartney

  Past, Periods, Feels

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• To be fearless no matter what happens-that is the root of true happiness. To move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store-that is the spirit, the resolve, that leads to human victory.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Lying, Moving, Roots

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• I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

  Gary Larson

  Couple, Coffee, Cups

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• When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Thinking, Done, Way

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• When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, People, Wish

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• The past gives great examples of what can happen in the future. It's always important to remember.

  Russell Simmons

  Past, Giving, Important

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• Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, Russia, Should Have

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• I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

  E. M. Forster

  Doe, Next, Knows

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