Happens Quotes - Page 10

• The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

  Pema Chodron

  Spiritual, Morning, Curiosity

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• Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Effort, Needs

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• I'm convinced that there is nothing that can happen to me in this life that is not precisely designed by a sovereign Lord to give me the opportunity to learn to know Him.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Opportunity, Giving, Opportunities To Learn

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• If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

  Helen Hunt

  Real, People, Unattractive

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• Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Taken, Heart, Dhikr

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• If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

  Seth Godin

  Needs, Demand, Way

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• The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.

  Seth Godin

  Matter, Way, Steps

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• The
  trick is that you can't find the hidden treasure until you start
  digging. Often enough, if you take the leap and do something, something
  will happen. Probably not what you thought, but something.

  Debbi Fields

  Digging, Treasure, Enough

  Debbi Fields, Alan Furst (1987). “"One smart cookie": how a housewife's chocolate chip recipe turned into a multimillion-dollar business--the story of Mrs. Fields cookies”, Simon & Schuster

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• What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity.

  John Berger

  Mean, Thinking, Forget Everything

  "The Intimate Idealogue". Interview with Robert Enright, bordercrossingsmag.com. April 1995.

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• Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

  Dorothea Lasky

  Real, Party, Home

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• I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with an IV and a fetal monitor hooked up to them. That does happen, but other things are possible.

  Ricki Lake

  Thinking, People, Balance

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• Superior people take both the credit and the blame for everything that happens to them.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Credit, Blame

  Twitter post from May 31, 2016

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• Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

  Simon Sinek

  Achievement, Want, Pursuit

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• You shape your own life, and the shape of your life is determined to a great extent by your attitude. This is an area that you can control, and in learning how to control and direct it, you will have great power over what is going to happen.

  Bob Proctor

  Attitude, Shapes, Determined

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Oct 07, 2011

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• Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

  Pema Chodron

  Perspective, Patient, Painful

  Pema Chodron (2007). “Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other Lojong Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness”, p.85, Shambhala Publications

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• In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that’s just ridiculous. It’s as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it’s for a reason.

  William S. Burroughs

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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• Great things do not just happen by impulse,
  but as a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Together, Impulse, Great Things

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• Perseverance is more than endurance."
  It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen. Perseverance means more than just hanging on, which may only be exposing our fear of letting go and falling. Perseverance is our supreme effort of refusing to believe that our hero is going to be conquered.

  Oswald Chambers

  Letting Go, Perseverance, Hero

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.124, Discovery House

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• Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

  Dan Millman

  Knowing, Doe, Accepting

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• There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Blessed, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 08, 2017

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• Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

  Emily Post

  Disappointment, Demand, Guests

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.436, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

  Maira Kalman

  Brain, Wonderful, Empty

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• When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

  Oprah Winfrey

  Heart, Unexpected, Joyful

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• I find that as we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling, and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without even trying.

  Louise Hay

  Miracle, Trying, Littles

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• Either melt by devotion the sense of separateness, or burn it by knowledge-for what is it that melts or burns? Only that which by its nature can be melted or burnt; namely the idea that something other than your Self exists. What will happen then? You come to know your Self.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Self, Ideas, Devotion

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