Happenings Quotes - Page 10

• Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Matter, Giving

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• Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

  Pema Chodron

  Enlightenment, Path To Enlightenment, Path

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• Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.

  Brooke Ellison

  Order, People, Miracle

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• But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it’s happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it’s scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it’s worth it.

  Jessi Kirby

  Giving, Choices, Scary

  Jessi Kirby (2013). “Golden”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

  Richard Dawkins

  Evolution, Has Beens

  "NOW" with Bill Moyer and David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2004.

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• Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Prayer, Lucky, Enough

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2009). “An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith”, p.178, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

  Nicole Kidman

  Mistake, Learning, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 09, 2016

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• An idea or an insight doesn't come from a single happening, it requires a meeting to alter a perspective. Often it takes a while for the events to collide, but when they do it is inevitable that a change will follow.

  Nick Bantock

  Ideas, Perspective, Events

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• Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

  Laura Dave

  Waiting, Sometimes, Whole Life

  Laura Dave (2011). “The First Husband: A Novel”, p.57, Penguin

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• Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

  James Broughton

  Past, Eternity, Here And Now

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• What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Thinking, Interesting, Answers

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• Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Character, Intelligent, Thinking

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2007). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time”, p.258, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Home, Thinking, World

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• The responses of friendliness, compassion, and appreciation that I felt ...--all situational permutations of basic goodwill--depended on my mind's being relaxed and alert enough to notice both what was happening around me and what was happening as my internal response. [p.50]

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Appreciation, Compassion, Mind

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• If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening. And we're in it!

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Drama, Looks, Life Is

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• Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right now. Importantly, this is in the service of being able to choose wisely so that I avoid complicating my own life and the lives of others.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Mindfulness, Able, Moments

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• When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

  Leslie Jamison

  People, Empathy, Theft

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.20, Granta Books

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• You could take the Internet enthusiasm that was happening in 1999 and 2000 here in the U.S., and in China it was three-to-five times more ebullient.

  Mary Meeker

  Three, Enthusiasm, Internet

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• Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

  Elizabeth Noble

  Love Is, Like Love, Energy

  Elizabeth Noble (1983). “Childbirth with Insight”

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• Nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing. There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds of every experience and every outcome. That includes every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to you right now. Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs to change for you to see this...is your definition of 'Highest Good.'

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Blessing, Perspective, Needs

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 26, 2015

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• Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Believe, Character

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “Faith: A Holy Walk”, p.74, Discovery House

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• No matter what may be happening today, God has good things in store for your future! It may not be easy to see now, but God has already lined up a new beginning, new friendships and new opportunities for you.

  Joel Osteen

  New Beginnings, Opportunity, New Friendship

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• Don't worry about something going away; enjoy it while it's happening. And don't worry about something that's not even real.

  Nicole Kidman

  Real, Worry, Going Away

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Aug 29, 2016

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• If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Mind, Spirit

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• What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'

  John Stossel

  Mean, Compassion, Wanting Someone

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