Quotes about happening
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“We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen.”

James Redfield book The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

Source: The Tenth Insight: Holding the Vision

Future

“Stories aren’t the beauty of what did happen. They’re the beauty of what could happen.”

Brad Meltzer (1970) writer

Beauty

“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

World, Beauty

“Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Appearance, Sea

“Life doesn't have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Life

“I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Way

“Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Dreams, Reality

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

For women, Happy, Hope, Peaceful

“There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Love

“… 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

Source: I Capture the Castle

Life, Imagination

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Life

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

Kent Haruf (1943–2014) Novelist

Source: Our Souls at Night

People, Dreams, Idea, Understanding

“You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?"

"Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-"

"My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Where Dreams Begin

Life, Girl

“Writers will happen in the best of families.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Family, Family

“Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Hope, Disappointment, Imagination, Thinking

“I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

World, Change

“The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous

Thinking

“The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Love

“Theof what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.”

Elizabeth Wein book Code Name Verity

Source: Code Name Verity

Dreams

“Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Way

“On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen…”

Gabrielle Zevin book Elsewhere

Source: Elsewhere

Fools, Thinking, Time

“I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

People, Law, Time

“There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.”

Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980) British filmmaker

“Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

People, Way, Feeling, Passion

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”

Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

Waiting

“I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love

“And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Personality

“Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: The Arkadians

Fools, Color

“The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.”

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist

Hope, Personality

“Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Hope

“Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

“Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Shadows

Evil

“Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast
as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?”

Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer

Cars

“Don’t leave your relationships to chance. Pray for godly people to come into your life with whom you can connect. Don’t force relationships to happen. Pray for them to happen. Then when they do, nurture them with prayer.”

Stormie Omartian (1942) American writer

Source: The Power of a Praying® Woman

Life, People, Chance

“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Music, Memory

“And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Just go right along, you'll start happening too!”

Dr. Seuss Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Context: Out there things can happen, and frequently do,
To people as brainy and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew.
Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

“I still cry on waking. I'm not sure why. I feel nothing. Nothing I can name, anyway. It's like breathing - something that happens over which I have no control. (6)”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Feeling, Cry

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

Love, Feeling

“Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.”

Anne Bishop book Sebastian

Source: Sebastian

Heart, Personality

“Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Dreams, Imagination

“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”

John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

Books, Reading

“What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Reality

“This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

World

“Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.”

Marya Hornbacher (1974) American journalist

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

Love

“A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.”

Jessica Mitford book Hons and Rebels

Source: Hons and Rebels

Books, Age, Way, Imagination

“Hey, Mikey? You get her hurt and I'll end you."
"You let anything happen to Eve and I'll do the same," Michael said. He'd just finished kissing Eve, too. "While you're at it, don't get yourself killed, either, bro."
"Ditto. And don't kiss me.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Kiss, Hurt

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Change, Time, Personality

“It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Sloppy Firsts

Life, Way

“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

People

“I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Heart

“You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Thinking

“How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

Love, Heart, Forgetting

“Mind your own Brazilian!" The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.

OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Flying

“I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Love, Truth

“A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Life, Time

“Kiss me," I said. "Before you say anything else, just kiss me and hold me and tell me it was worth it, no matter what happens.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

Kiss

“And then it was all happening, what had started to happen at least twice before. Feelings so sweet and strong she could hardly bear it. Strange recognition, unexpected belonging…impossible knowing…”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

Feeling, Strong

“But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Queen of Babble Gets Hitched

Study, Time, Future

“If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

“Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Life, Guy

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, Mathematics, Problem

“You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.”

Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature

Source: Life is Elsewhere

Thinking, Time, Past

“Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true… it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.”

Diane Duane book High Wizardry

Source: High Wizardry

Time

“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die”

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic

People

“Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

War, People

“I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson… Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.”

Robin S. Sharma book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Learning, Teachers, Past

“A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.”

Stephen King book Finders Keepers

Source: Finders Keepers

“There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

The Medium is the Message (1967), A chapter sub-heading attributed by McLuhan to Alfred North Whitehead

“… he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus

“What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.”

Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table

Source: The Cat's Table

Secret

“In his eyes, there was no trace of what had happened earlier, and I could feel something inside me break. So that was that. We were finally, finally over.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Goodbye, Feeling

“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

The Second World War, Volume II : Their Finest Hour (1949) Chapter 8 (September Tensions).
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Deep, Happy, Life

“All new news is old news happening to new people”

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist

People

“The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Success

“Interesting things happen in the dark…sometimes.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

Thinking, Time

“Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.”

Max DePree (1924–2017) American businessman and writer

Source: Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community

Effort

“And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Amulet of Samarkand

Source: The Amulet of Samarkand

“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.”

Edward de Bono (1933) Maltese physician

Memory

“Magnus, remember what happened the last time you tried to tango. Your shoe flew off and nearly killed someone."

"It was a metaphor. He's a Shadowhunter, he's a Lightwood, and he's into blonds. He's a dating hazard.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]

Shoe, Time

“That's the way it goes. Some things happen and some things don't. This one is obviously just wasn't meant to be. Except deep down… I still believe it was.”

Sophie Kinsella book The Undomestic Goddess

Source: The Undomestic Goddess

Way

“Fairy tales only happen in movies."
-George Melies

from The Invention of Hugo Cabret”

Brian Selznick book The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Source: The Invention of Hugo Cabret

“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”

Gore Vidal book Julian

Source: Julian

Truth, History

“Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/
as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.”

Kay Ryan (1945) American poet

Water

“Well…… That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.”

Aldous Huxley book Island

Source: Island

Forgetting

“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”

Tim Winton book Breath

Source: Breath

Thinking, Time

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Life, Death, People, Time

“And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Girl, Strong, Summer

“It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

People

“Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

People, Stupidity, Nature

“Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands.”

John Boyne (1971) Irish novelist, author of children's and youth fiction

Source: Mutiny on the Bounty

Life, Memory, Heart, Personality

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”

Jodi Picoult Plain Truth

Source: Plain Truth

“He'd gone from sixteen to seventy-five in a matter of seconds, but the old-man smell happened instantly, like boom. Congratulations! You stink!”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: How to Save a Life

Life

“This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

Life, God, Peace, Search

“Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Source: The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

“Evil happens without effort, naturally, inevitably; good is always the product of skill.”

Charles Baudelaire Le Peintre de la vie moderne

Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalité; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. <br class="br">XI: "Éloge du maquillage" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%89loge_du_maquillage <br class="br">Le peintre de la vie moderne (1863)

Nature, Effort, Evil

“I won’t lie to you—it was hilarious. Yes, we were in trouble, yes, this was a disaster, and so one and so forth, but I have to say, seeing those upturned faces, the looks, was bout the best thing that happened to us since we’d come to New York.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Lie

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Quotes about happening
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