Things Happen Quotes - Page 7

• Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

  George Vaillant

  Fun, Giving, Sense Of Humor

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• I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle of a bunch of things happening at the same time, but find focus. I strive to be like the sun sitting in the middle of the solar system with all the planets spinning around it - millions of things going on. It's just sitting there being the sun, but exerting gravitational effect on everything. I think man should look at himself that way.

  RZA

  Men, Thinking, Spinning Around

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.37, Penguin

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• People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

  Mac Anderson

  Motivation, People, Achievement

  Mac Anderson (2015). “You Can't Send a Duck to Eagle School: And Other Simple Truths of Leadership”, p.37, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

  Freddy Adu

  Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason, Made

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• I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

  David Cone

  Love Is, Hands, Games

  "The Slow Boil" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• You would be very ashamed if you knew what the experiences you call setbacks, upheavals, pointless disturbances, and tedious annoyances really are. You would realize that your complaints about them are nothing more nor less than blasphemies - though that never occurs to you. Nothing happens to you except by the will of God, and yet [God's] beloved children curse it because they do not know it for what it is.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Children, Would Be, Upheaval

  Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2012). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.47, Image

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• Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

  Leila Aboulela

  Light, Practice, Giving

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• There's a lot of room to grow, and the women who believe they're worth it are the ones who are going to make good things happen during the next period of WNBA growth.

  Sue Wicks

  Women, Believe, Growth

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• When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

  Robert Bringhurst

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

  Duane G. Carey

  Two, Space, Orbit

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• Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Golf, One Day

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• You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In your life, things happen for reasons. People make sense. But that's not my life. Nobody in my life makes sense.

  Rainbow Rowell

  People, Answers, Reason

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.99, St. Martin's Griffin

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• What I believe when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason - and it's not to fail and die.

  Ransom Riggs

  Believe, Things In Life, Everything Happens For A Reason

  Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.49, Quirk Books

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• We have to distinguish between a man as he is in essence, and as he is in ego or personality. In essence, every person is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the person between head, heart, and stomach or between the person and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, karma accumulates, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity; man falls from essence into personality.

  Oscar Ichazo

  Karma, Fall, Heart

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• I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

  Rosanne Cash

  Real, Thinking, Get Better

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• Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok - that we were all going to be ok - the message would come to me in the form of a white feather. Then something happened to me about ten years ago when I was on tour in Australia. I was presented with a white feather by an Aboriginal tribal elder, which definitely took my breath away. One thing for sure is that the white feather has always represented peace to me.

  Julian Lennon

  Dad, Years, White

  "Being a Beatles baby: Julian Lennon reflects on big Beatles anniversary" by Leora Arnowitz, www.foxnews.com. February 05, 2014.

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• A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

  Pierre Salinger

  Funny, Way, Firsts

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• In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you.

  Rorion Gracie

  Art, Getting Through Hard Times, Going Through Hard Times

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• Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

  Miguel Torres

  Art, Jobs, Mma

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• We live in two worlds - order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to do next. In the world of chaos, things happen, we get things done, yet unpredictability persists. In one world, we like to think we are in control. In the other, we mingle together with increasing complexity, conflict, and uncertainty.

  David Spangler

  Thinking, Order, Two

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• Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!

  LaToya Jackson

  Stay Strong, Book, Pages

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• Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.

  Greg Ginn

  Needs, Way, Breathe

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• And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.

  Mark Batterson

  Praying, Bases, Happens

  FaceBook post by Mark Batterson from Nov 08, 2015

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• I've learned that God sometimes allows us to find ourselves in a place where we want something so bad that we can't see past it. Sometimes we can't even see God because of it. When we want something that bad, it's easy to mistake what we truly need for the thing we really want. When this sort of thing happens, and it seems to happen to everyone, I've found it's because what God has for us is obscured from view, just around another bend in the road.

  Bob Goff

  Mistake, Past, Views

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.35, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Jesus modelled that we don’t need to talk about everything we’ve done. It’s like He’s saying, what if we were just to do awesome, incredible stuff together while we’re here on earth and the fact that only He knew would be enough? If we did, we wouldn’t get confused about who was really making things happen. Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.

  Bob Goff

  Jesus, Confused, What If

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