Happens Quotes

• The world is teeming; anything can happen.

  John Cage

  World, Anything Can Happen

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.110, Wesleyan University Press

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• If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

  Wayne Dyer

  Order, Waiting, Get Better

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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, Manage

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2013

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• You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

  Ira Glass

  Jobs, Stupid, College

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• Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!

  Winston Churchill

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  With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Positive, Regret

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 29, 2015

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• Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Letting Go

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• I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Life, Talking

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Motivational, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 04, 2012

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• Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Passion

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.797, Modern Library

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• I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

  Katey Sagal

  Hands, Facts, Sometimes

  FaceBook post by Katey Sagal from Apr 24, 2016

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• Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fashion, Comfort, World

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• [on the secret to a happy, content life] Do you want to know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Secret, Mind, Want

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• We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.

  Andy Puddicombe

  Littles, Way, Little Things

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• Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent in our own society... Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Depression, Depressing, Mean

  "The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future" by Theodore J. Kaczynski, ("Control of Human Behavior", item 145), 1995.

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• There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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• What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

  Gloria Steinem

  Generations, Violence, Raised

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• Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mind, Wonder, Busy

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.17, Penguin

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• Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

  P. D. James

  New Experiences, People, Mind

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by P. D. James, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Ya know it's funny, what's happening to us. Our lives have become digital. Our friends, now virtual. And, anything you could ever wanna know is just a click away. Experiencing the world through second hand information isn't enough. If we want authenticity we have to initiate it. We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self-discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.

  Travis Rice

  Funny, Life, Motivational

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• If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Vision, Ifs

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• I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

  Meher Baba

  Real, Long, Worry

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• Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Attitude, Wish, Impossibility

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.17, Xist Publishing

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• Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.

  George Mason

  Background Noise, Waiting, Make You Happy

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