Bad Things Happen Quotes

• In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Asking Why, People, Different

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• No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

  Courtney Milan

  Men, Broken, Happens

  Courtney Milan (2011). “Unraveled”, p.108, Courtney Milan

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• Be grateful for every thing good and bad that comes to you. For all things have contributed to your advancement.

  J. P. Blake

  Grateful, Advancement, Good And Bad

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• But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Looks, Way, Remember

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Bad things happen, but you can still live.

  Joel Courtney

  When Bad Things Happen, Stills, Happens

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

  Maya Banks

  Hard Times, People, Bumps

  Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin

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• Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.43, Routledge

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• Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jobs, Mistake, Responsibility

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• Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving On, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 02, 2011

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• Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Positive, Positivity, Sometimes

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 3, 2005.

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• Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

  Rory Miller

  Rules Of Life, Happens, Picks

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• God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

  Jim Butcher

  Good Life, Exercise, Choices

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Side Jobs: Stories From The Dresden Files: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

  Natalie du Toit

  Being Positive, Trying, Use

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• bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hurt, Order, Personality

  Richard Dawkins (2012). “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• In business as in life, sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But over time, if you play long enough, everybody gets what he deserves - good and bad.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Life, Karma, Business

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 7, 2005.

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• Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Memories, Mean

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 26, 2010

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• Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

  Gordon Livingston

  Determination, Children, Long

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• It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Believe, Responsibility, Numbers

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• Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Asking Why, People, Perfect

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• Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

  Drew Brees

  Fighting, Pressure, Disappear

  Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Good Things, Happens, Bad Things

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• Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Trying, Sometimes, Happens

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