Top 100 Quotes About Happenings

#1. Nothing is yours permanently so you better enjoy it while it's happening.

Joan Rivers

#2. I know that I reached a point where I wasn't going to let the nonsense happening before me slide anymore.

Ariana Madix

#3. It takes close attention to see what is happening in front of you. It takes work, pious effort, to see what you are looking at.

Don DeLillo

#4. Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Campbell Newman

#5. America is going to start happening outside of the parties.

Jeff Sharlet

#6. Some day (when we have enough spiritual growth) we will come to see that the seemingly disjointed happenings, the apparent accidents, are really part of an orderly pattern.

Emmet Fox

#7. 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

#8. Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Deepak Chopra

#9. In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported ...

Allan Kaprow

#10. The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows.'

Yamaoka Tesshu

#11. People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. For all of them told happenings like narrations, chronological and careful, as if the ear of the world listened and wished to know surely.

Eudora Welty

#13. The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

R.D. Laing

#14. And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

Max Born

#15. He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous, sordid happenings, a fit subject for laughter, and yet it made him sorrowful to laugh.

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

Will Durant

#17. Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church.

Mike Pilavachi

#18. Small daily happenings make life spectacular ... start enjoying the small things in life!

Andy Rooney

#19. We hold that happenings which may even compel the heart to break cannot break the human spirit, or rob it of its most essential qualities.

May Kendall

#20. Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#21. I have a lot of wonderful things happening in my life.

Aras Baskauskas

#22. If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.

Henry Thomas Hamblin

#23. By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

Taylor Negron

#24. Just as I defend myself, therefore,
From all unpleasant happenings however small,
Likewise, I shall act for others' sake
To guard and to protect them with compassion.

Shantideva

#25. I've learned ... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

Andy Rooney

#26. An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Mark Twain

#27. I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

Philip K. Dick

#28. When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there ... You're looking at you..

Alan Watts

#29. Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them.

Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

#30. A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

Jean Houston

#31. Take a long pause ... breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you.

Ashton Kutcher

#32. It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

Alexandre Desplat

#33. Reincarnation is happening all the time. Every moment we are going through a change. Our being isn't solid. Reincarnation is now.

Frederick Lenz

#34. When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening

Mike Murdock

#35. The most interesting things are always happening behind one.

Iris Murdoch

#36. Love is where unseen and unsaid things
merge with each other
where silence is thirsty of happenings

Seema Gupta

#37. The Bible is not a book that you can open and say, 'Now, Lord, put some magic into my soul that will open up the meaning of this book.' There is only one way really to understand the Word, and that is through wrestling with the circumstances and happenings of life.

Oswald Chambers

#38. After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

Jhonen Vasquez

#39. It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.

Charlie Melancon

#40. Whatever is going to happen is already happening.

Ted Berrigan

#41. I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.

Sathya Sai Baba

#42. We do not know the details in a day. How can we foretell the happenings in distant time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. While some men see ordinary happenings, others see divine light and guidance.

Thomas Merton

#44. We are going to a new world ... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

Voltaire

#45. To me, everything happening inside of us is political.

Marianne Williamson

#46. I don't really get excited about good things happening to me.

Joe Bradley

#47. My misdeeds are accidental happenings and merely the result of having been in the wrong bar or bed at the wrong time, say most days between midday and midnight.

Jeffrey Bernard

#48. Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.

Sakyong Mipham

#49. I think the American people deserve somebody telling them what is really happening in Washington.

Jack Abramoff

#50. If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.

Paulo Coelho

#51. We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

Rokia Traore

#52. Magical realism is a blending of the unusual or supernatural into an otherwise ordinary setting. And, to me, this perfectly describes the South. 'The Sugar Queen' involves a lot of magical happenings, but in a very down-home Southern setting. It's full of things that could almost be true.

Sarah Addison Allen

#53. There is as much guidance in what does not and cannot happen in my life as there is in what can and does
maybe more.

Parker J. Palmer

#54. Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

W.C. Fields

#55. The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.

Emily Greene Balch

#56. There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#57. It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.

Lisa Kleypas

#58. He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.

Russell Hoban

#59. Yesterday's happenings are the reasons of Today's situation.

Danielle Steel

#60. I could never understand what was going on in my dreams I couldn't control the happenings, it's like I just stood there glued to the ground watching everything around me move and evolve into different scenarios. I was a ghost of myself watching life unravel before my own eyes ...

JaszCab.

#61. Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

Bruce Lee

#62. I move with the time. Whatever's happening in time, I'm in.

Snoop Dogg

#63. I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.

Zachary Cole Smith

#64. It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

Diana Gabaldon

#65. Rumors spread faster than news and news spreads faster than the happenings

Amit Abraham

#66. The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

Orison Swett Marden

#67. Something wonderful is about to happen,
and something awful is about to happen.
You can dwell on either one.
It's your choice.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#68. Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid!

Phyllis Diller

#69. The conversation is happening about your brand whether
you're a part of it or not.

Seth Godin

#70. All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#71. Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day.

Carl Jung

#72. You can have the joy of reading the stories of incredible happenings, or you can be part of the story

Cassandra Clare

#73. Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.

Sri Aurobindo

#74. As the old year retires and a new one is born, we commit into the hands of our Creator the happenings of the past year and ask for direction and guidance in the new one. May He grant us His grace, His tranquility and His wisdom!

Peggy Toney Horton

#75. You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Lillian Hellman

#76. 'Station to Station' is a series of happenings that go across the landscape. What is a happening? A happening is a moment in time. A moment in time that is not choreographed, where you don't know precisely what's going on. Where there are aspects of different layers of culture.

Doug Aitken

#77. Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

Dan Harmon

#78. Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

James Branch Cabell

#79. Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for the first time she saw clearly the truths that her busy life in former times had prevented her from seeing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#80. Always looking toward the next moment, the next month, the next event, rarely allowing myself the privilege of fully participating and embracing the happenings that were right before me for that day.

Priscilla Shirer

#81. National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#82. If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!

Lester Levenson

#83. What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.

William V. Shannon

#84. The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.

Seneca.

#85. Magical moments,defining incidents,people who have made a difference to us....some of these change the course of life.I enjoy reliving these off and on to remind myself to look out for empowering moments,magical happenings and people who influence meaningfully.Try it,it is heartening and powerful

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#86. Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Mark Twain

#87. When you're in prison, you can't do anything about what's happening outside.

Fela Kuti

#88. To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and appetite for life that gives the power to record everyday happenings while magically freeing them from banality and triviality.

William Plomer

#89. Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Hank Azaria

#90. The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can be omitted from a narrative in which I am doing my best to confine myself to actual happenings. At the age of twenty-two I believed myself to be unextinguishable.

Siegfried Sassoon

#91. Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

Goswami Kriyananda

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

Philip Roth

#93. In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

Edmund Husserl

#94. There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

John Cage

#95. With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.

Zig Ziglar

#96. I don't believe in God. I believe something is happening, I'm not sure what it is.

Sonny Barger

#97. It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.

Rudolf Virchow

#98. Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

Perry Brass

#99. In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman

#100. The oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com

Elyne Mitchell

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