Everything That Happens Quotes

#1. I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.

George Saunders

#2. But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

Haruki Murakami

#3. What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?

Jonathan Dee

#4. I mean, if everything is already set in stone, why try? I prefer to think that we're choosing in every moment what happens next.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.

Sierra Simone

#6. Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics: in the political class struggle.

Louis Althusser

#7. If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

Oswald Chambers

#8. I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#9. We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Oswald Chambers

#10. As I often tell my students, the two most important phrases in therapy, as in yoga, are "Notice that" and "What happens next?" Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#11. When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

Maaza Mengiste

#12. But that was the thing about life. Sometimes it's boring, and nothing happens. Sometimes everything happens at once. And sometimes it's just plain stupid.

Joe Kimball

#13. I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Cassandra Clare

#14. Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to
you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something
bigger and better than your current situation.

Brian Tracy

#15. Everything that happens is God's will. When you realize that, you're home free.

Byron Katie

#16. A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

Rod Milburn

#17. Everything that happens to us can be looked at as a gift. Although it's quite difficult when you're in the middle of a hard struggle with something, it's hard to see it as a gift, but in retrospect, we can almost always look back and say, "Oh, I see why I had to go through that."

Shakti Gawain

#18. Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

Tim Meadows

#19. Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.

E. Stanley Jones

#20. Blake, your past is my past, your present is my present, and your future is my future. I bear the weight of everything that happens in your life. How can you not see that?

Claire Contreras

#21. When people say that nothing happens in their lives I believe them. But you must understand that everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

Muriel Spark

#22. Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

John Sharp

#23. Everything that ever happens to you only happens once, so you better never stop paying attention.

Jessie Ann Foley

#24. But I've learned in my life that not everything that happens needs to be talked about. Some things are better left alone.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#25. Being an opener is easy because fans aren't expecting anything. However, when you go up there and blow their minds and they flip out that is such an unbelievable feeling, so you want to make sure you bring your everything, every single night to ensure that happens.

Andrew Ripp

#26. I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

Natalie Maines

#27. Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.

Chandra Wilson

#28. The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up.

Thomas Ligotti

#29. Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

Gail Devers

#30. But what happens when you don't find that right person? Do you just spend the rest of your life in a relationship where the conversation isn't great, everything isn't perfect, but it is nice and sweet?

Miranda Kenneally

#31. And the moral of this story is?" asked Amber, and immediately regretted it because it didn't sound tough and bored at all, just snotty. "That everything looks small on paper," Meoraq replied. "But in Gann's world, shit happens." The

R. Lee Smith

#32. I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Anne Sexton

#33. It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

Winston Churchill

#34. If we are the sum of everything that happens to us, to limit a person's experience is to limit their growth.

David Viscott

#35. I think everything that happens in life we're prepared for in ways we really don't really know.

Chrisette Michele

#36. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Ray Bradbury

#37. It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

Steve Yzerman

#38. God has never promised a life without suffering, but He has promised to comfort us and give us the strength to carry on. He has also promised to work good out of everything that happens to us if we love Him and continue wanting His will in our lives (Rom. 8:28).

Joyce Meyer

#39. maybe everything happens in a monkey that came to make the rules in heaven

George G. Asztalos

#40. Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Rashi

#41. Jack wasn't built in a way to ever regret the path his life took. He believed that everything happens for a reason. Although, I'm not sure he would feel the same way now seeing as he died jumping on that new path he dug for his life.

Harper Sloan

#42. We are inclined to think that everything that happens is to be turned into useful teaching. In actual fact, it is to be turned into something even better than teaching, namely, character. The mountaintop is not meant to teach us anything, it is meant to make us something.

Oswald Chambers

#43. For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

Karlfried Graf Durckheim

#44. Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

James Altucher

#45. The idea that everything happens for a reason comes from people who've been lucky all their lives.

T. Baggins

#46. Don't you see that everything that happens is always a beginning again,

Rainer Maria Rilke

#47. It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.

Hal Elrod

#48. I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Dan Brown

#49. Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.

Elihu Root

#50. There's a reason people say everything happens for a reason, but don't think about that reason too much, because then you'll turn into the unhappy "skeptical one" of the group.

Jay Clark

#51. You feel out of control, but we can't control everything that happens in life. Sometimes we just have to go where the tide takes us and know we'll cope with whatever comes along.

Sarah Morgan

#52. Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

Tommy Chong

#53. I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Terri Blackstock

#54. Everything that happens in life has a purpose. Make the most of every situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#55. I guess that's what happens when you've lost everything that had any real meaning. You become numb to what's left.

Melyssa Winchester

#56. No, it's just, if everything happens for a reason," Elizabeth persists, "as personally, I believe that it does, then when I hear a story of how two people came together, it's like a piece of the plan is being revealed.

Emily St. John Mandel

#57. I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason. I believe that standing for what you believe in isn't an easy thing but it's the right thing to do; be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.

Roy Bennett

#58. One point has already been proven. Everything that happened once can happen again.

Jacobo Timerman

#59. To be fully present with what is, is to be content ... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.

Michael Neill

#60. Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.

Antony Garrett Lisi

#61. Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

Dan Millman

#62. Everything that happens with me gets made out to be a fiasco, but I have every right to do everything I've ever done. I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

Fiona Apple

#63. All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

Paul Claudel

#64. I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.

Monica Bellucci

#65. I didn't yet perceive the way everything that happens is connected-didn't realize that opening a door that led to outside exploration would inevitably open a door to the unexplored places inside myself.

Cameron Dokey

#66. What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason
and it's not to fail and die.

Ransom Riggs

#67. I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

Sean Lennon

#68. When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill

#69. I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but ... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.

Julie Kagawa

#70. Everything that happens to us has a blessing built into it.

Wayne Dyer

#71. Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable ... then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well.

Marcus Aurelius

#72. A lot of people regret, because we live in a society that reveres being at the prime of life and everything, but you have certain primes at certain times, and mine happens to be ...

Clint Eastwood

#73. Most of the time
99 percent of the time
you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Lauren Oliver

#74. I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

Lil' Wayne

#75. Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Henry Ward Beecher

#76. Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you. It brings to birth within you new territories of the heart.

John O'Donohue

#77. Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.

Criss Jami

#78. know that everything happens for a reason. You are where you're supposed to be. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

Shelly Crane

#79. It's funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time. So what happens when it suddenly doesn't? things very well could get messy.

Robin Burks

#80. With any independent film, it's all about getting everyone's schedules in line and everything together at the same time and just doing the best you can do when that happens - if it happens.

Jennifer Westfeldt

#81. Everything in the world that happens to you may be someone else's doing; I'll grant you that. But what you do with it, how you react to it, what you make of yourself in the midst of it all - that's totally you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#82. Everything that happens in our lives is "good information" about the degree to which our choices are working for us. We can, however, choose to believe that we are a victim of the world we see, and have no choices. And, of course, we will receive "good information" about this belief as well.

Bill Crawford

#83. Coincidence is just the hand of God who pushes you on the right track. That path will lead your steps towards an epiphany that will change your life. Don't believe in coincidences, believe in the righteousness of everything that happens to you.

Irina Serban

#84. Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you'll keep faith in me, you'll remember who we are, and you'll never feel despair.

Ann Brashares

#85. Not everything that happens to us is within our control, my friend. Sometimes life gives us a swift kick in the ass, and we have to do the best we can with what we're given.

Felice Stevens

#86. I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing.

David Gregory

#87. The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.

Randy Couture

#88. Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

Delia Ephron

#89. Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.

Paulo Coelho

#90. Everything that happens to you matters to me.

Cassandra Clare

#91. I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I'm extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life!

J. R. Martinez

#92. Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Marcus Aurelius

#93. Mackenzie, the truth shall set you free and the truth has a name; he's over in the woodshop right now covered in sawdust. Everything is about him. And freedom is a process that happens inside a relationship with him. Then all that stuff you feel churnin' around inside will start to work its way out.

Wm. Paul Young

#94. Remember that everything that is happening around you, good or bad, is in some way conspiring to help you.

Debasish Mridha

#95. I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random ... that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again.
-p150, NOTES TO SELF

Avery Sawyer

#96. Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.

Rajneesh

#97. Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

Deepak Chopra

#98. If we want to be able to pick up the pieces of our lives and go on living, we have to get over the irrational
feeling that every misfortune is our fault, the direct result of our mistakes or misbehavior. We are really not that powerful. Not everything
that happens in the world is our doin

Harold S. Kushner

#99. Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#100. It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life.

Hal Elrod