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• One of the few graces of getting old - and God knows there are few graces - is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.

  Maurice Sendak

  Creative, Grace, Noses

  "Interview: Why Is Maurice Sendak So Incredibly Angry?". Interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting Magazine (October 1993); later quoted in Leonard S. Marcus "Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book" (p. 181), 2002.

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• Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Photography, Mysterious, Wonderful

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• Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Opportunity, Waiting, Really Living

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• Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Government, Liberty

  "The Illusion of Safety". thehill.com. August 22, 2011.

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• Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.

  Pia Toscano

  Why Things Happen, Goes On, Excited

  "Pia Toscano Reportedly Inks Record Deal After Shock 'American Idol' Exit" by Luchina Fisher, Ryan Creed, Kevin Dolak, abcnews.go.com. April 9, 2011.

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• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Real, Live Life, Past

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• Sometimes things happen that you never thought would. Sometimes you're just blessed

  Greyson Chance

  Blessed, Sometimes, Happens

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• Sometimes the ATP puts a lot of pressure on the players and sometimes you get injured because you play on a dangerous surface. Nothing happens, no one pays for that.

  David Nalbandian

  Player, Pay, Pressure

  "David Nalbandian attacks ATP after kick gifts title to Marin Cilic" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2012.

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• When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole where you used to plug up their aloneness, their disorganization, or their financial irresponsibility. Whatever it is, they will feel a loss. If you love them, this will be difficult for you to watch. But, when you are dealing with someone who is hurting, remember that your boundaries are both necessary for you and helpful for them. If you have been enabling them to be irresponsible, your limit setting may nudge them toward responsibility.

  Henry Cloud

  Hurt, Responsibility, Loss

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Mar 03, 2016

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• Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

  Vivian Mercier

  Play, Waiting, Firsts

  "The Uneventful Event". The Irish Times, p. 6, February 18, 1956.

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• Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

  Wayne Muller

  Mean, Doe, Happens

  Wayne Muller (2013). “Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives”, p.187, Bantam

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• I'm a miracle man, things happen which I don't plan, I've never planned anything. Whatsoever I do, I want it to be an instant action object, instant reaction subject. Instant input, instant output.

  Lee “Scratch” Perry

  Men, Miracle, Want

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• I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

  Simon Van Booy

  Beautiful, Too Late, Wonder

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.321, Oneworld Publications

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• I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

  Simon Van Booy

  Believe, World, Want

  Simon Van Booy (2007). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, Turtle Point Pr

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• If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Stress, Today, Ignored

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• I think the hip hop world and the rock world still have a lot in common, but it certainly seems like things happen and break at a much faster pace in the hip hop world.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Thinking, Rocks, Hip Hop

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• You ride one in to the beach, and it's the most amazing thing you've ever felt. But at some point the water goes back out; it has to. And maybe you're lucky-maybe you're both too busy to do anything drastic. Maybe you're good as friends, so you stay. And then something happens-maybe it's something as big as a baby, or as small as him unloading the dishwasher-and the wave comes back in again. And it does that, over and over. I just think sometimes people forget to wait.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Baby, Beach, Thinking

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.31, Penguin

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• Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.

  Tony Clark

  Made, Persons, Happened

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• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  Stevie Wonder

  Hate, Long, People

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• Only in the present do things happen.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Mental Health, Happens

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• We are never really in control. We just think we are when things happen to be going our way.

  Byron Katie

  Thinking, Way, Happens

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2013

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• I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich.

  Danny DeVito

  Funny, Sight, Towers

  "Danny DeVito: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2010.

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• Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Decision, Watches

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.128, Pan Macmillan

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• If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Powerful, Compassion

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.167, Harper Collins

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