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• The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

  Natalie Massenet

  Opportunity, Thinking, Luck

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• We have some role in almost everything that happens in our lives. When "bad" things happen, the mistake is not in the role, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, we call ourselves bad, since we had a role in their creation. We then have only two choices: blame ourselves, or disown our creative power, neither of which is congruent with our highest purpose.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mistake, Two, Choices

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• Stress is a choice. Do you buy that? Some people have a hard time with the idea. Yes, bad things happen: The economy sours, our business struggles, the stock market tumbles, jobs are lost, people around us don't follow through, deadlines are missed, projects fail, good people leave. Life is full of these. But still, stress is a choice because whatever the 'trigger event,' we always choose our own response. We choose to react angrily. We choose to stuff our emotions and keep quiet. We choose to worry. Stress is a choice.

  John G. Miller

  Jobs, Stress, Struggle

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• Bad things happen everyday but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them.

  Lana Del Rey

  Trust No One, Thinking, Everyday

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• The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Mean, Expression, People

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• I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.

  Cary Middlecoff

  Dog, Home, Golf

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• We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.

  Sue Halpern

  Sweet, Memories, People

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• You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow." Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call it "the present." Children understand that tonow is the place to live. The present is really the only moment we have. Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.

  Bernie Siegel

  Children, Feelings, May

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• Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

  Danielle Steel

  Needs, Care, Good Things

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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• Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

  David Perlmutter

  Track, Brain, Survival

  "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

  Philip K. Jason

  Believe, People, World

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• I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.

  Tammara Webber

  Believe, Mean, Fighting

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.15, Tammara Webber

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• Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Sometimes, Reason

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• I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Prayer, Religion, Praying

  Nicholas Sparks, Micah Sparks (2013). “Three Weeks With My Brother”, p.67, Hachette UK

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• I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

  Philip Yancey

  Divorce, Simple, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

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• Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

  Darren Shan

  Truth, Real, Hero

  Darren Shan (2012). “Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Happened, Happens

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• Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.

  Joel Osteen

  Decision, When Bad Things Happen, Circumstances

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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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• I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, People, Trying

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• When America doesn't act, bad things happen

  Dennis Prager

  America, Happens, Bad Things

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• If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Believe, Past, Optimism

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• Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.

  Peter Steele

  Pain, Suffering, Earth

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• Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

  Peter York

  People, Feelings, Pressure

  "The man and the marabou" by Peter York, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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