“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me
Source: The Best of Me
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
Variant: Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, and others make it happen.
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“What you make happen for others, God makes happen for you.”
T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader
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