Top 100 Life Happened Quotes
#1. Life happened in the past. Life will happen in the future, but life is happening at this moment. Live in this moment. Seize this moment!
Debasish Mridha
#2. There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I'm just not good with alcohol. And I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much.
Ava Gardner
#5. Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.
Andy Andrews
#6. Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I've had in life happened during or after meditating. Everything becomes clear and the truth starts coming out.
Hugh Jackman
#7. Life happened. You are mostly the guy who left. I'm not the same girl you left standing here.
Marilyn Grey
#8. I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.
Elizabeth Taylor
#9. Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said yes to something. Otherwise things just sort of stay the same.
Danny Wallace
#10. So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
David Nicholls
#11. The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!
Randy Orton
#12. My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.
Ronald Reagan
#13. Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs ... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.
Robbie Williams
#14. A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
Julie Andrews Edwards
#15. I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
Amy Grant
#16. Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
Thrity Umrigar
#17. Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
Maureen Forrester
#18. The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.
Libba Bray
#20. The changes that happened in my life from doing these movies are so permanent that I don't think I'll ever really say goodbye, it'll always be a part of me, the Hunger Games.
Jennifer Lawrence
#21. If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.
Oprah Winfrey
#22. Part of the answer to the question that life's roller-coaster ride repeatedly raises, why has this happened to me? is always: it is moral training and discipline, planned by my Heavenly Father to help me forward along the path of Chrislike virtue.
J.I. Packer
#23. And then Lucy happened.
Never mind prophecies and bounty hunters, she was the one who'd really turned my life upside down ... She made everything better.
She was necessary.
Alyxandra Harvey
#24. We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter. (p. 22)
Rabih Alameddine
#25. Childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.
Kate Green
#26. I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth.
Nina Sankovitch
#27. That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
Ann Patchett
#28. You don't always get to know what happened, or why things happened a certain way, but it always, always, goes deeper than any one thing.
Abby Fabiaschi
#29. Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.
Nikki Blonsky
#30. I think time is elastic. There are moments in my life that are many, many years ago and yet I can conjure them as though it's a second ago. And there are other things that happened maybe last week that seem like ages ago.
Keith Carradine
#31. I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.
Bob Newhart
#32. The truth is, everything that has happened in my life ... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.
Warren Buffett
#33. No. It happened. But if it simplifies your life to disbelieve it, then do so.
Peter David
#34. Libraries shelter the spirit, provide food for the mind, and answer the questions raised by the problems of life. They have been the home of my heart since I was a very young child, in whatever place I happened to live.
Roberta Gellis
#35. To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.
Debra Messing
#36. I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.
Priyanka Chopra
#37. She wanted us to go on like nothing had ever happened between us. Like she didn't have her hand circled around my heart. Like she wasn't squeezing the life out of it every time she left." ~ Jamie
Catherine Gayle
#38. I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life
Alan Bradley
#39. Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?"..."And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?"..."EVERYBODY'S got something like that.
John Jackson Miller
#40. Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it.
Jenny Downham
#41. Everything runs its course. We had told a lot of stories that happened in our life. My kid was getting older, and we were running out of stories to tell.
Howie Mandel
#42. In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.
Norman Fischer
#43. When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.
Bryan Kest
#44. Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Jonathan Sacks
#45. The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
Patrick Marber
#46. I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
Vicki Lawrence
#47. Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man's life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?
Marianne Curley
#48. Moreover, during his wife's confinement, something had happened that seemed extraordinary to him. He, an unbeliever, had fallen into praying, and at the moment he prayed, he believed. But that moment had passed, and he could not make his state of mind at that moment fit into the rest of his life.
Leo Tolstoy
#49. My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.
Rumi
#50. Your testimony doesn't mean anything if it is not your testimony. So every song that I write it happened at one point in my life or another.
Mike Willis
#51. Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.
Norman Maclean
#52. Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.
Daya Kudari
#53. My son has been the best thing that has happened in my life. He has been amazing, and he is truly heaven-sent. And so, I just feel all that love.
Ciara
#54. Sometimes, you feel that you're unwanted, in someone's life when you're actually the best thing happened in their entire life, it's just too hard, to recognize if they really want you or if they're pretending to want you.
Amna.s
#55. The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
John Silber
#56. Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.
Joyce Meyer
#57. During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.
Rick Riordan
#58. His wife, however, happened to be the only woman in his life who failed totally to arouse any passion in him whatsoever.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#59. Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
Helen Garner
#60. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.
Richard Wagamese
#61. If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
Arthur Golden
#62. I was in acting classes from the age of 9, dance classes, music classes - my mom put a lot of energy and attention into me, so no matter what happened in my life, I always had this basis of discipline. So I really worked hard for everything I had from a very early age.
Milla Jovovich
#63. For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next.
William Goldman
#64. What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.
Harry Mathews
#65. I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.
Bipasha Basu
#66. Life can be easily fucked up,
but its your decision to make it happened or not.
Ava Lohan
#67. But now we live in a time and in a culture when mystery tends to mean something more answerable, it means a crime novel, a thriller, a drama on TV, usually one where we'll find out - and where the whole point of reading it or watching it will be that we will find out - what happened.
Ali Smith
#68. There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.
Sheryl Swoopes
#69. sometimes things happen totally opposite to our expectations, but when we look back after a decade or so, that happened was more appropriate to our life
Sadashivan Nair
#70. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice Munro
#71. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.
Sally Armstrong
#72. You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.
Luigi Pirandello
#73. I hate myself that I wasn't there for him. I hate that I could not feel it in him. How could I not know what had happened? How could I not hear it in his voice, his comments, or in his demeanor? He needed my help, and I couldn't feel it.
Melissa Seligman
#74. I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.
Jenny Lawson
#75. Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
#76. But whatever happened, I knew I'd always have this summer, and that first night on the pier under the stars, with the waves surging around us, when we both glowed. And armed with that, I was not afraid. This summer, and this life, had been a privilege. I was sure of that.
Seth King
#77. A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window ... I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.
Garry Disher
#78. At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.
Matt Ridley
#79. Can we just forget that ever happened?"
His smile is devilish. "Not on your life.
M. Leighton
#80. I had 53 years of happy marriage and two daughters. These were the best things that happened in my life.
Henry Allingham
#81. I like him a lot.... I think I might love him. And it obviously isn't everything, but being the way I am has been a huge part of my life. It's easy to act like my past never happened, but it feels like I've put up this wall around my heart.
Meredith Russo
#82. Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.
Laurel Nakadate
#83. Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
Clare Bowen
#84. Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.
Tori Amos
#85. Life is not what happens to us; it is what we perceive has happened to us.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#86. It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.
Marilyn Fullen-Collins
#87. There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.
Randy Pausch
#88. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect and sometimes bad things just happened.
Kaya McLaren
#89. That prison," I said with heartfelt sincerity, "Was absolutely the most awful thing that has happened to me in my entire life." I could tell by the way he looked at me that he thought my life had been filled with one awful thing after another.
Megan Whalen Turner
#90. I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.
Amy Adams
#91. Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.
Louise Erdrich
#92. In fact, until the last moments of his life, until the last seconds as he gasped for breath, he never realised how much he wanted to live. But, at that point, death was inevitable and nothing that had happened could be changed.
Stephen Craig
#93. It's not always the case that things will fall into your lap or that life will be great, but it's all about perspective and having a positive outlook. If something goes wrong you say: "That happened for a reason, what can I learn from that and how can I grow?"
Chris Pine
#94. (T)he real world worked differently than stories. In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefinables, and things that just happened on their own.
Scott Westerfeld
#95. My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
Adam Ant
#96. There is light suddenly everywhere, the light of your life speaking to you. What it tells you is almost the same as what happened.
Never mind that almost isn't good enough; it's all you have.
Alexander Chee
#97. He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took possession of him. He felt how useless it was to struggle against fortune, this being the burden of wisdom which the ages had bequeathed him.
James Joyce
#98. All progress of humanity happened because humans wanted to be loved and appreciated.
Debasish Mridha
#99. My motivation has to do with what happened to my family. I want to help young people make important decisions at the most important time in their life. If I didn't do this, it would be like my kids died in vain. I want to help them make the right decisions.
George Chuvalo
#100. I squeeze my eyes shut as though that will somehow make it go away, but I know it won't. It happened and there's no changing it. No changing any of the things that happen to us. All there is to do is move on. Starting now.
Nyrae Dawn
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