Quotation Explorer - 'Happening'

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. - San Juan de la Cruz
Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it? - Terry Moore
Don't try to impress a loser because If one is not happy about the things happening in their life, one cannot be happy about the things happening in someone else's life. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Destiny is what is happening to you right now. - Stephen Richards
It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude. - Sumner Davenport
I trust the Universe Implicitly, therefore my experience is happening FOR me and not TO me. I trust the Universe. I trust the process. - Maria Flynn
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. - Marshall McLuhan
It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored. - Terry Pratchett
I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling ... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it. - Stephen J. Cannell
Change isn’t a choice; it’s already happening. You are atoms and molecules in motion… you can’t avoid change; you ARE change. The question is whether you will EMBRACE the power of change to enhance your life or continue to exhaust yourself in the pointless endeavor to halt it. - Steve Maraboli
Learn to accept things, learn to understand things that they're happening because it's for our own good. No matter what happen, just always remember that "If that thing didn't happen, I wouldn't be what I am now. - Jayson Engay
The bad, icky and stinky things that happen sometimes should never be allowed to have an adverse effect over the good, lovely and beautiful things happening everyday. - Azhar Ali
All new news is old news happening to new people - Malcolm Muggeridge
With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening. - Helen Oyeyemi
It's not happening to you, it's happening through you. Check your thoughts and your energetic output for the answers. - Sanjo Jendayi
When you manage your expectations, you let yourself soak in the joy of what is actually happening around you. - Andrea Goeglein
All the activities that are happening in this world are indeed done through the intellect; there is no need for Knowledge there. Knowledge is indeed in Knowledge (Knowing). And whatever actions are done through the intellect, the Knowledge ‘Knows’ it too. - Dada Bhagwan
Perhaps the only way to be often happy with everything happening around or anywhere is to feel nothing about anything and anyone, but always bear in mind that only a lunatic stays in such mood. - Anuj Somany
RVM Thoughts for Today - "Things will happen.You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse . React Positively. Live Happily - R.v.m.
Life is happening at this very moment; it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations. - Debasish Mridha
I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening. - James Rozoff
Thank Life For Happening, Thank Every Twist And Turn, There Is A Reason For Every Single Thing, There Is A Reason For Every Worry And Concern. - Dante Jannicelli
A writer's partner should be a good reader...otherwise she/he will get bored what's happening around. - Vikash Shrivastava
Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about. - Sanhita Baruah
God doesn't stop crisis from coming, as He didn't stop Christ from coming. Things have their reasons for happening, we need not to faint, but rather have faith that we are never alone. - Anthony Liccione
Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening. If you can act angry and offended, especially on a college campus, you can shut down the other side using a speech code. - Mike Adams
We should look closely on what is happening at the moment, guys with little moustaches can pop up everywhere now given this instable economic situation. A look into history shows us what that could mean. - Steve Keen
I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there. - Lynsey Addario
Nothing ever happens to me, " she reflected..... An older person at such an hour and in such a place might think that sufficient was happening to him, and rest content. Lucy desired more. - E.M. Forster
Remember that everything that is happening around you, good or bad, is in some way conspiring to help you. - Debasish Mridha
If I can't trust my child with what is happening in our home how do I think he or she will ever experience trust? - K.L. Jordaan
Anything that happens, happens. Anthing that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though. - Douglas Adams
It will, It had, It is happening, depending on how you think and react about it. - Savan Solanki
...I just don't see anything ever happening in this life that could make me not want you all over my skin - Collen Hoover
We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t). - James Baraz
It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Even though your life is Rainy and muggy you can fight through it just Make sure you know what is happening And make sure you don't take to much pressure on it just shake it off! - Skye Daphne
How soon you overcome each incident, good or bad happening with you revealshow deeply you understand life. - Deep Trivedi
The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers - William S. Burroughs
TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen. - skint foodie
If bad things are happening in your country, remember, the first responsible person is your stupid government! But if you have supported that government, now, you are the first responsible person! So sit down and shut up! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now. - Roy Bennett
Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shit happening on me, I feel happy. - Deyth Banger
Don't let your past cloud your judgement for the things that are happening in the present. Past is nothing but a distant memory. Fear of something that has happened in the past will ruin your present happiness. - Ashbeel Roy
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers
No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough. - Britt Skrabanek
Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution. It’s that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides. - Sandy Vaile
His fingers caressed the column of my tense throat. I shivered in fear. I hated not being able to see what was happening, it forced me to feel everything. - C.J. Roberts
And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened. - C. JoyBell C.
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. - Barbara Tober
Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment! - Debasish Mridha
Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way. - Jessica Soffer
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. - Unknown
Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening. - Kamand Kojouri
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility. - William S. Burroughs
Your "look-alike" may be the result of one of the various possible futures happening simultaneously! - Vishwanath S J
Miracles are happening every moment. You just have to be ready to see them. - Debasish Mridha
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. - Paulo Coelho
Life is about what is happening, not what has happened and what will happen. Let’s live it to the fullest. - Aaron Pal Sen
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope. - Thomas Merton
I think of myself first as a singer, meaning an interpreter. Then I think of myself as a writer. It is an outlet I have to have. I get very hard to live with without something happening to write about. - Oliver
Just because you can't believe it, doesn't mean it's not happening - Sharad Vivek Sagar
Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening. - Jon Scott
For Magic to happen in our lives, we need to be open minded about magical things happening - Steven Aitchison
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you - Lemmy Kilmister
You can start to give love only when your heart knows the truth of whats happening around you. - john ignatius
We are often so worried about what is going to happen that we can't enjoy what is happening NOW. - Tanya Masse
Nowadays people have forgotten about morality and virtue, but they know how to resolve arguments. Look, what’s happening. We lead wars with measurements, dafters and calculations. We do not speak to inspire, we endeavour to create massacre and engulf as many people as we can. Where did we miss? - Alexander Zalan
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.
Do not compromise yourself and put your goodness in the same impermanent category as whatever circumstance happening. Be the best you in every circumstance. - Steve Maraboli
There comes a point in our lives where light bothers us more than darkness , we get used to bad happening around us than good , happiness makes us more anxious than sadness and at that moment , we don't mind our lives going chaotic as everything seems to be in order . - Rahul Kumar K.
Our wounds can so easily turn us into people we don't want to be, and we hardly see it happening. Protect your heart, love yourself, and be with people who love and care for you. - Sue Fitzmaurice
When people write you off, just start again as if you don't belong to this world and see miracle happening! - Ramana Pemmaraju
This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins. - Shannon L. Alder
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter. - Friedrich Nietzsche
NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ - Stephen Colbert
You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing. - Raphael Zernoff
For me, concept of death works as a liberator from anxiety -- no matter whatever is happening, its all going to end when we die. - Shon Mehta
Personal Responsibility is the acknowledgement of the fact that I am personally responsible for what is happening in my life, in my surrounding and in my nation. - Sunday Adelaja
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working. - Anonymous
Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us - Kishore Bansal
I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before. - Daniel Willey
If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening. - Matsuri Hino
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me. - Ai Yazawa
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. - Unknown
There’s no such thing as yesterday, he thought dully. Memory is just today, happening over and over again, stamped indelibly with regret. - Helen Maryles Shankman
And there comes a time that what is happening does not suit you anymore...You flip a coin, light a match and throw it behind your back and let everything purify in ashes while you are moving forward.There is no reason to be afraid of the new, the old has power no more - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
He wasn't sure he liked everything that was happening, but a lot of it was "cultural," apparently, and you couldn't object to that, so he didn't. "Cultural" sort of solved problems by explaining that they weren't really there. - Terry Pratchett
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even thought they countain most of our lives. - J. Green
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words. - Swami Dhyan Giten
When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be. - Chuck Palahniuk
There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is. - Ronda Rousey
But they are many and he is alone.This has not come to pass yet, he thinks, this is not happening. I am not dying. This is my fate, what shall be. This is the future, it has not happened yet. - John French
I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, end of the film, end of the evil... This how it must go and it will go, if you think that evil has gone it's still here. If you believe in god, that's means that you believe this evil. - Deyth Banger
When I say that consciousness is an illusion I do not mean that consciousness does not exist. I mean that consciousness is not what it appears to be. If it seems to be a continuous stream of rich and detailed experiences, happening one after the other to a conscious person, this is the illusion. - Susan Blackmore
The trick when it comes to dealing with depression is being able to imagine yourself out of it. When you can picture a happier life, you will be determined to work at the things that prevent it from happening. - Keysha Jade
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. - Eric Hoffer
your Life is cover by only one word 'IS', everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind. - Sushil Singh
To understand what's happening in the U.S. presidential election of 2016, you need to know what's going on in the year 2024! Soundscape: Where hearing is believing. - Royce Flippin
My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that. - Alex Ferguson
It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning. - Mircea Eliade
Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another. - Terry Pratchett
A successful presentation needs to be both buttoned up (orderly) and free-flowing (a conversation). The tension between the two, the fact that both things are happening at once, defines the process. - Dale Ludwig
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward. - Susan Cain
Who says that money don't matter?If you are Rich all the world will know about you, if you are poor no one give a crap about what it's happening to you!"Life It's Short, enjoy this moment. - Ebelsain Villegas
time is happening all at once we travel down it seeing only the presentthe big bang was that big, its still banging - e.webb
Things will happen. You can't stop them from happening, but you can control your reaction from making things worse. React Positively. Live Happily. - - RVM
And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there’s a memory for them to happen in - Graham Swift
Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again. - Martha Gellhorn
The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value. - Sean Carroll
Things began happening with odd synchronicity, as if the universe itself was conspiring on behalf of their love story. - John Mark Green
A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time. - Joseph Campbell
Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening. - Antonin Sertillanges
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. - Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess
You cannot live a political life, you cannot live a moral life if you're not willing to open your eyes and see the world more clearly. See some of the injustice that's going on. Try to make yourself aware of what's happening in the world. And when you are aware, you have a responsibility to act. - Bill Ayers
This human body is the perpetual home of God’, what does it mean? Where God is visualized this body, not anywhere. So this human body is the perpetual home of God. What is happening for this reason? This human body is infinite and the world is also infinite. - Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
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