Happenings Quotes - Page 11

• The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

  C. Wright Mills

  Knowledge, Frustration, Political Will

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

  Garry Winogrand

  Photography, Bangs, Saws

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• I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try to forget, no matter with what fortitude we face them, what mix of religion and therapy we swallow, what finished and durable forms of art we turn them into, are going to go on happening inside of us for as long as our brains are alive.

  Christian Wiman

  Art, Believe, Past

  Christian Wiman (2013). “Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet”, p.57, Copper Canyon Press

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• Your good is happening right now, even as you accept this statement of truth.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Accepting, New Thought

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 23, 2013

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• Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

  George Kubler

  Real, Dark, Past

  Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18, (p. 36), 1977.

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• If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Sexy, Moving

  "She Is Legend". Interview with Mark Healy, www.marieclaire.com. May 6, 2009.

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• It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.

  John D. Caputo

  Philosophy, Eagles, Wings

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• There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

  Pat Metheny

  Jazz, Form, Audience

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• Know that whatever is happening in your life right now, it's there for a reason. Just accept the things the way they are. Just relax and let go of all the mental constructs that your mind is creating. Acceptance leads to wholesome right action.

  Brandon Bays

  Letting Go, Healing, Acceptance

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• After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  World, Care, Innocence

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• And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

  Sonia Braga

  Mother, Play, Getting Older

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• It's taken a long time but eventually when I had the songs in place and demos right and I found myself a manager, that's when everything started happening quickly but I think that's always the way it is.

  James Blunt

  Song, Stupid, Taken

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• Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and these are the contractions that are propelling us into a new world, whether we like it or not, but I think we're going to like it.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Love, Real, Thinking

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• Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.

  Alexander Fleming

  Fall, Science, Fog

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• Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands.

  Arthur Koestler

  Fate, Destiny, Hands

  "Bricks to Babel". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1980.

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• I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

  Debi Mazar

  Fun, Hollywood, World

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• Events are moving so fast and what in one moment seems impossible, the next is happening. I'm sure historians will, in time, provide theories and analysis, but for now I think most of us simply want the tide stemmed.

  Lucy Powell

  Moving, Thinking, Events

  "Economic bail-out aims to restore confidence for small firms and savers" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

  Merle Haggard

  Missing You, Music Is, Melody

  FaceBook post by Merle Haggard from Nov 04, 2011

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• It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

  Keith Richards

  Opportunity, Might, Happens

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• What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

  Chuck Yeager

  Trying, Doe, Helping

  Twitter post from Feb 8, 2015

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• While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Men, Light

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• We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Order, Addiction, Contentment

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.149, Anchor

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• Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Christian, War, People

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• I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Views, Ego

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