Life Doesn't Just Happen Quotes

#1. Life doesn't just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions.

Justin S. Holcomb

#2. Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's something I am interested in and so is the art world: a world that's trying to engage socially, with a leftist slant, to work out how we got here.

Mike Mills

#3. Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation.

Jack Canfield

#4. Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.

William Least Heat-Moon

#5. I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Markus Zusak

#6. We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn't happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose and what we might have been pales against what we have.

Laura Schroff

#7. Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Charlaine Harris

#8. Life doesn't wait. You have to make it happen. You have to live it while it's happening around you. Life moves on.

Catherine McKenzie

#9. Normal doesn't happen overnight when the world around and between you has always been off-balance.

Lisa Wingate

#10. If being a sex symbol means you have lots of sex, then I am glad to be a sex symbol. But in real life I'm not. That doesn't happen.

Diego Luna

#11. Living a life that matters doesn't happen by accident. It's not a matter of circumstance but of choice. Choose to live a life that matters.

Michael Josephson

#12. And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.

Susane Colasanti

#13. We bring back to us everything we put out into the world. That includes every action we take and thinking a thought is taking an action - a very big one, because life isn't so much dynamic as it is magnetic. We draw things to us. Life doesn't happen to us. It happens through us. You

Habib Sadeghi

#14. I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

Joss Whedon

#15. Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Bad things happen, Mathew. We can't see them coming, and there's often nothing we can do to prevent them. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't all live life to its fullest.

Catherine Anderson

#17. You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.

Frederick Lenz

#18. Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.

Mary Roach

#19. Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside down. It colors your waking moments, and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.

Vikas Swarup

#20. The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going.

Paul Tournier

#21. Laurie:
Her pain, her fears, her whole life, y' know? I mean, ordinary people, right? All the things that happen to them... doesn't that move you more than a bunch of rubble?

Alan Moore

#22. The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out.

Richard Flanagan

#23. In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.

David Bergen

#24. I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

Mary Ellen Mark

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

Jenny Han

#26. Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

Tyler Hilton

#27. You can be as happy as you've ever been in your life, and shit is still going to happen. But it doesn't just happen. It knocks you sideways and crashes you into the ground, because you were stupid enough to believe in sunshine and roses.

Chevy Stevens

#28. Life doesn't happen to you. You can't just sit on a park bench and expect amazing things to whizz by on a conveyor belt. Life is what you put into it.

Holly Bourne

#29. Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn't make sense now. I'm just going home.

Stacey Donovan

#30. Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.

John Pomfret

#31. So for online people, death doesn't happen. People go online to hide from death and wind up hiding from life.

Joe Hill

#32. The weight of lies will bring you down, follow you to every town 'cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there.

Colleen Hoover

#33. Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

Jerry Spinelli

#34. Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us.

Shefali Tsabary

#35. "What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?" "No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave.

C. JoyBell C.

#36. Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Haruki Murakami

#37. Sometimes life doesn't happen in chronological order.

Colleen Hoover

#38. There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.

Cate Blanchett

#39. A change doesn't always happen because we intentionally ask for it, but because it's a reality of life.

Ramona Matta

#40. Maybe you're looking for the kind of man who doesn't exist, Ash. You want somebody who'll fit your life perfectly and that'll never happen. There has to be a bit of give and take, you know.'
'I know,' Ash said sharply. 'But I don't want to do all of the giving and none of the taking.

Sheila O'Flanagan

#41. The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

Frederick Lenz

#42. The hidden reality of human life is the fact that the world doesn't just happen. It isn't a natural fact, even though we tend to treat it as if it is - it exists because we all collectively produce it.

David Graeber

#43. Life doesn't happen to us, but because of us.

Avril Somerville

#44. I think it's weird how vanilla people just jump into a bed and fuck and don't ever relish the moment, don't talk to each other about what works and what doesn't. So many people just expect sex to happen, but really great sex takes work, like everything in life. You have to talk to your partner.

Lexi Blake

#45. But like it or not, change happens and, like most things in life, doesn't really happen /to us/ - it just happens.

David Kessler

#46. I love books where you can't get out of bed. You want to consume them in one sitting, devour them. Those are my favorites, where you've almost abandoned your life for them. That doesn't happen every time, but those are the best.

Rachel McAdams

#47. If you don't make a choice, life makes it for you and then you're stuck with what it decides. Take control of your destiny so that doesn't happen

Stewart Stafford

#48. Which is what one always hopes will happen: for life to take over and be bigger and more marvelous than what we can dream up on our own.
Life doesn't need magic to be magical.
(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

Laini Taylor

#49. Without the desire to be patient patience doesn't happen,
Just like without the desire to grow, LIFE doesn't happen!

Sujit Lalwani

#50. Our room has two beds. If this had been a movie, [the hotel] would have been full so we would have had to share a bed. Why doesn't stuff like that happen in real life?

Nyrae Dawn

#51. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

#52. Good stuff doesn't just happen. You have to fight for it.

D.J. MacHale

#53. I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Tom Glavine

#54. Long ago, I was lucky enough to shoot 'Flashpoint' and 'Durham County' at the same time. It doesn't happen often in an actor's life that you get two great parts simultaneously.

Hugh Dillon

#55. So it's true, then, being in love is like hitting the sweepstakes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and there's no way of saying who's going to win, but it changes your life when it does.

Michele Gorman

#56. As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen.

Eve Myles

#57. When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.

Warren Littlefield

#58. No. Sometimes these things happen. Life doesn't go the way we plan or hope, but we don't have to be so angry, do we?" He

Eowyn Ivey

#59. Loving someone isn't a hard task, it's not a chore, you don't wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn't happen! he boomed.

Holly Hood

#60. But living in fear is no kind of life. We have to trust God. That doesn't mean bad things won't happen. But we know He's in charge.

Terri Blackstock

#61. 35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing."

But trying is better than not doing anything at all.

Kcat Yarza

#62. Caroline: He's Grant West and he actually wants to date you. That just doesn't happen in real life.
Sydney: Well, maybe I like real life.

Brynna Gabrielson

#63. Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.

Jim Carrey

#64. What man can quote a scene from the 1939 film classic? That does not happen in real life, hell, it doesn't even happen in books. I halted hastily in the middle of the parking lot. Of course - it was obvious as a hooker at a debutant ball - Hunter. Was. Gay.

Genna Rulon

#65. When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.

Karen Allen

#66. It takes a long time to wake up. That's why it doesn't happen to people who are in a hurry.

Robin Gregory

#67. Faith raises us above our circumstances. Faith enables us to be content even when life doesn't make sense. Faith is the bulwark that keeps us strong even when we're assailed by agonizing thoughts about what might happen or by what has happened.

Linda Dillow

#68. Son, anything can happen to anyone," my father told me, "but it usually doesn't.

Philip Roth

#69. Spiritual growth doesn't happen automatically and is rarely pretty; we will all be "under construction" until the day we die and we finally take hold of the "life that is truly life" (1 Tim. 6:19).

Kay Warren

#70. When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#71. One always imagines things happen in hot blood,' he said. 'An ill-considered remark starts a row. Hard words follow, misunderstandings. Matters that can be put right in the end. Unfortunately life doesn't work out like that. First of all there is no row, secondly, nothing can be put right.

Anthony Powell

#72. Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.

James Gray

#73. This is life, ephemeral, transient. Just because it's gone doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Michelle Gable

#74. Just remember, your mother doesn't let things happen to her. When something tries to ruin her life, she drags it into the street.

Kiera Cass

#75. If it's not happening now, it doesn't mean it won't happen in the future.

Noringai

#76. RVM Thoughts for Today
Do you know that you can CHOOSE to be Happy or Unhappy? happiness doesn't just Happen ! It is a Choice you make.

R.v.m.

#77. The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

Bethenny Frankel

#78. Life doesn't have the best timing , but things that are supposed to happen will happen when they're supposed to.

Pamela Ribon

#79. Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

Adam Savage

#80. Evelyn looks at me with purpose. "Do you understand what I'm telling you? When you're given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn't give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#81. I'm very curious where can it put you life without to have a target. It's like to push something which doesn't do anything, but what happens??
If I push something to much times it brokes, but what happen with the humanity without a target?

Deyth Banger

#82. Life doesn't happen to me because I don't let it happen. I'm afraid it won't happen the only way I want it to happen: my way.

Carol Vorvain

#83. Life just doesn't hand you things. You have to get out there and make things happen. that's the exciting part.

Emeril Lagasse

#84. When I came to see that Christian growth doesn't happen by working hard to get something you don't have, but rather it happens by working hard to live in the reality of what you already have, this gospel insight radically transformed my life.

Tullian Tchividjian