Happenings Quotes - Page 14

• How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

  Tony Robbins

  How You Feel, Results, Interpretation

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• Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

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• Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

  Pema Chodron

  Looks, Clarity, Slow Down

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.184, Shambhala Publications

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• Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what's happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.

  Deepak Chopra

  Kindness, Understanding, Body

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• The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again.

  Brad Warner

  Thinking, Order, Effort

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.43, New World Library

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• Worry implies that we don't quite trust God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives.

  Francis Chan

  Powerful, Worry, Crazy Love

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.44, David C Cook

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• The feeling that you get.... when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Feelings, Want, Firsts

  Jennifer Donnelly (2004). “A Gathering Light”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Waiting, Want

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• A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a
  failure, and then fail all the more completely because he
  drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the
  English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because
  our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language
  makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

  George Orwell

  Men, Ugly, May

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Really, what I'm always drawn to is the voice - PJ Harvey , Björk . If the voice interests me, then I'm interested to listen to what's happening.

  Dave Gahan

  Pjs, Voice, Interest

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• If there were no guns, we couldn't talk about it, ... You turn on TV, you see soldiers marching with guns. We only talk about things that's happening.

  Dr. Dre

  Gun, Soldier, Tvs

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• You are not merely the body; you are 100% Pure Being. But you must find this out for yourself. It must become your own discovery, happening in your innermost being.

  Mooji

  Discovery, Body, Pure

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• I decided long ago, never to walk in anyone's shadows. If I fail, if I succeed...At least I live as I believe. No matter what they take from me, They can't take away my dignity. Because the greatest love of all is happening to me. I found the greatest love of all inside of me. The greatest love of all is easy to achieve. Learning to LOVE YOURSELf...It is the GREATEST love of all

  Whitney Houston

  Believe, Love You, Long Ago

  Song: The Greatest Love Of All

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• The conversation is happening about your brand whether
  you're a part of it or not.

  Seth Godin

  Conversation, Brands

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• You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Hands, Forgotten

  "Letters to a Young Poet".

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• Life is conspiring in your favor. It may not always look that way, but it is, I assure you. Everything that is happening, is happening just the wayit must, in order for you to have the opportunity tocreate the experience of your Self for which you yearn.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Opportunity, Self, Order

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• Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all it will ever be is what's happening here, the decisions in that we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.

  Jim Carrey

  Player, Worry, Decision

  "Jim Carrey Receives Honorary Diploma from Maharishi University of Management". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.iowasource.com. May 24, 2014.

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• A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Snakes

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• The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

  Jackson Browne

  Music, Song, Writing

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• Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Nice, Actors, Visibility

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• As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.

  LeBron James

  Sorry, People, Answers

  FaceBook post by LeBron James from Nov 25, 2014

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• The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.

  Chris Prentiss

  Mistake, Waiting, Perception

  Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.15, BookBaby

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• It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.

  Cy Twombly

  Lonely, Feelings, Lines

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