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“Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy
“The facts are always less than what really happened.”
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer
“Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.”
Bill Bryson book A Short History of Nearly Everything
Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything
“This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.”
Daniel Woodrell (1953) Novelist
Source: Winter's Bone
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) poet and political activist
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
Variant: Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
“You'll never know what's happening inside the heads of other people.”
Etgar Keret (1967) Israeli and polish writer and screenwriter
Source: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God & Other Stories
“Good things happen to those who hustle.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.”
Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist
Source: The Actor and the Housewife
Source: On Beauty
“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Walt Whitman Starting from Paumanok
Starting from Paumanok. 12
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”
Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Get A Clue
John Ciardi (1916–1986) American poet, professor, translator
“Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.
- Friar Tuck”
Stephen R. Lawhead (1950) American writer
Source: Tuck
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Oprah.com http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Life-Lessons-We-All-Need-to-Learn-Brene-Brown#ixzz28s3kPWdP <br class="br">Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead <br class="br">Context: Belonging is not fitting in... Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don't have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.
“It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.”
Anthony Powell (1905–2000) English novelist
“What happened to you?" she asked.
"I got hit in the side."
"With what?"
"A knife.”
Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist
Source: Lover Awakened
A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner
Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Context: Then Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh walked hand in hand down the forest path and they said goodbye. So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.
“Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?”
William Goldman book The Princess Bride
Source: The Princess Bride
Dossie Easton (1944) American author and family therapist
Source: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
“I'm fit and I'm angry, and I'm obviously crazy. Anything could happen.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“Just let it happen and, I promise you, all that is magic will appear.”
Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician
Source: This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, And Life Through The Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 7: Time
Context: Sometimes you're invited to a big ball and for months you think about how glamorous and exciting it's going to be. Then you fly to Europe and you go to the ball and when you think back on it a couple of months later what you remember is maybe the car ride to the ball, you can't remember the ball at all. Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life. I should have been dreaming for months about the car ride to the ball and getting dressed for the car ride, and buying my ticket to Europe so I could take the car ride. Then, who knows, maybe I could have remembered the ball.
“Life happened because I turned the pages.”
Alberto Manguel (1948) writer
Source: A History of Reading
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.”
Joe Haldeman (1943) American science fiction writer
“Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting”
Gregory David Roberts (1952) Australian writer and bank robber
“I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008 http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/bushisms/2009/01/ws_greatest_hits.html http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/how-will-you-remember-george-w-bush <br class="br">2000s, 2008
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
describing his experiment with mescaline, p. 22-24
The Doors of Perception (1954)
Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
Context: Reflecting on my experience, I find myself agreeing with the eminent Cambridge philosopher, Dr. C. D. Broad, “that we should do well to consider much more seriously than we have hitherto been inclined to do the type of theory which Bergson put forward in connection with memory and sense perception. The suggestion is that the function of the brain and nervous system and sense organs is in the main eliminative and not productive. Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.” According to such a theory, each one of us is potentially Mind at Large. But in so far as we are animals, our business is at all costs to survive. To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet. To formulate and express the contents of this reduced awareness, man has invented and endlessly elaborated those symbol-systems and implicit philosophies which we call languages. Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born—the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things. That which, in the language of religion, is called “this world” is the universe of reduced awareness, expressed, and, as it were, petrified by language. The various “other worlds,” with which human beings erratically make contact are so many elements in the totality of the awareness belonging to Mind at Large. Most people, most of the time, know only what comes through the reducing valve and is consecrated as genuinely real by the local language. Certain persons, however, seem to be born with a kind of by-pass that circumvents the reducing valve. In others temporary by-passes may be acquired either spontaneously, or as the result of deliberate “spiritual exercises,” or through hypnosis, or by means of drugs. Through these permanent or temporary by-passes there flows, not indeed the perception “of everything that is happening everywhere in the universe” (for the by-pass does not abolish the reducing valve, which still excludes the total content of Mind at Large), but something more than, and above all something different from, the carefully selected utilitarian material which our narrowed, individual minds regard as a complete, or at least sufficient, picture of reality.
“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
“Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.”
Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love
Source: Whitney, My Love
Chaim Potok book The Chosen
David Malter to Reuven Malter (p. 110)
Source: The Chosen (1967)
