Happenings Quotes

• There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Fear, Refusal, Finding Out The Truth

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• Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

  Tom Rath

  Suffering, Workplace, Conflict

  "Be Nice: It's Good for Business". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 12, 2004.

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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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• It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

  Elia Kazan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.485, Knopf

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• Sometimes you have to put your own dreams on hold temporarily so you can help release a dream in somebody else. What you make happen for others, God will make happen for you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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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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• People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born too mean, or maybe they were born too tender. But most people are brought to where they are by circumstance, by calamity or a broken heart or something else happening in their lives that wasn't anything they planned on. People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. The one thing that I do know is, it doesn't matter what any one of them tell you -- nobody wants to be alone.

  Dakota Fanning

  Lonely, Heart, Mean

  "Fictional character: Allie Keys". "Taken", 2002.

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• Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I'm alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Breathe... Everything is happening exactly as it should be.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Attitude, Breathe, Should

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• I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Spiritual, Thinking, Asking Questions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's happening, I put my arm around her and just hold her. I almost swear I can feel my heart thumping. But it must just be hers, pressed tightly against my chest.

  Isaac Marion

  Heart, Hug, Necks

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Change, Life Changing, Taken For Granted

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• If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

  Amy Grant

  Believe, Learning, Night

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2014

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• The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.

  Michael Hyatt

  Life, Motivational, Interesting

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• That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

  A. A. Milne

  Past, Two, Bye

  Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

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• It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Hurt, People, Giving

  Quoted in Ms., Aug. 1972

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• Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

  Elizabeth Scott

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “Perfect You”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Focus, Vision

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Getting Back Up

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• The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'

  Regina Spektor

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Class, People, Achievement

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• Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Happy, Future

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life.

  Yoko Ono

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Yoko Ono from Jul 22, 2011

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• Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Animal, World, Filled

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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