“I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.”

“Sometimes the Worst things that happen in our lives,
put us directly on the Path to the
Best things that will ever happen to us.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

“My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

“I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and say to myself "well, that's not going to happen”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

“What happened to your hand?
It got hit by a mirror.
How'd that happen?
I lost my temper at myself.”

Wes Anderson (1969) American filmmaker

“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”

Quentin Crisp book The Naked Civil Servant

“A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House…”

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN

“I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no ‘I’, no ‘me.’ Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroads is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance.”

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) French anthropologist and ethnologist

“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh