Quotes About Happenings

#1. 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

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

Deepak Chopra

#3. 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

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

Yamaoka Tesshu

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

Sunday Adelaja

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Andy Rooney

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Andy Rooney

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

Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

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

Seema Gupta

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Thomas Merton

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Russell Hoban

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

Danielle Steel

#28. 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.

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Amit Abraham

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

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

Sri Aurobindo

#37. 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

#38. '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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

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

Seneca.

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

E. Stanley Jones

#53. It just happens, and all happenings are mutually interdependent in a way that seems unbelievably harmonious.

Alan W. Watts

#54. In contrast to happiness stands joy. Running deeper and stronger, joy is the quiet, confident assurance of God's love and work in our lives - that he will be there no matter what! Happiness depends on happenings, but joy depends on Christ.

Anonymous

#55. No man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time

Plato

#56. The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.

Leon Edel

#57. Enter each day with the expectation that the happenings of the day may contain a clandestine message addressed to you personally. Expect omens, epiphanies, casual blessings and teachers who unknowingly speak to your condition.

Sam Keen

#58. For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Rontgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new ...

Alexander Fleming

#59. Rain is the purest of natural happenings.

Will Advise

#60. We should count our blessings more than our happenings, as much as we should count our savings more than our earnings.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#61. The difference between the 'cost' and 'price' of life's learnings..
'Cost' is calculated over a period of happenings, good, bad ugly..
'Price' is what we pay to 'reduce','bear' or 'feel good about the cost..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#62. Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

John Hodgman

#63. I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.

Pierre Loti

#64. Strange it is, but unforgettable moments are often connected with very small happenings, happenings that assume fictitious proportions, especially when we are children.

Radclyffe Hall

#65. Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.

James E. Faust

#66. what ever happenings life has to go on

Jacob

#67. Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he is not to worry himself into premature senility.

Alex Dow

#68. Agitaion over happenings which we are powerless to modify, either because they have not occured, or else are occuring at an inaccesible distance from us, achieves nothing beyond the onoculation of here and now with the remote or anticipated evil that is the object of our distress.

Aldous Huxley

#69. The film opens up the world beyond Katniss' point of view, allowing the audience access to the happenings of places like the Hunger Games control room and President Snow's rose garden, thereby adding a new dimension to the story.

Suzanne Collins

#70. The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the fall of Troy. Until the gods began their heavy-handed meddling, it was a fine, fast game, with the Dodgers having somewhat the better of it.

Roger Angell

#71. For explanations, they did not look in the pages of the visitor's book to see if others likewise found that ghostly happenings abound.

Eric Russell

#72. The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
theater and empty circus and empty universe
ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#73. To have a survey is to have a revelation on the happenings

Sunday Adelaja

#74. That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#75. If a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Marcus Aurelius

#76. All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

George Orwell

#77. Fun is good but too much of fun has resulted in much kind of unfunny happenings.

Santosh Kalwar

#78. There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

Edward T. Lowe Jr.

#79. we all look for an opportunity to impress people around us... however... why we don't figure out that the impressions are made by very casual happenings...

Brijesh Singh

#80. It is a precisely datable historical event having the full weight that real historical happenings have; like them, too, it happens once only; it is contemporary with all times, but not in the way that a timeless myth would be.

Pope Benedict XVI

#81. How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.
With nothing causing it.

Philip K. Dick

#82. Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day.

Carl Jung

#83. The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

Seamus Heaney

#84. An obvious fact about negative feelings is often overlooked. They are caused by us, not by exterior happenings. An outside event presents the challenge, but we react to it. So we must attend to the way we take things, not to the things themselves.

Vernon Howard

#85. I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

Dodie Smith

#86. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.

Truman Capote

#87. I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America.

Ruben Blades

#88. She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Muriel Spark

#89. The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.

Paul D. Boyer

#90. Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

Marvin J. Ashton

#91. Life in the auntring, or for a settled man, is repetitive, as I said; and so it can be dull. Nothing new happens. The mind always wants new happenings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#92. Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you?

Mariko Tamaki

#93. Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.

Ramana Maharshi

#94. Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.

Elizabeth Bowen

#95. Life is a chain of happenings that are either purely random or predestined.

Steven Redhead

#96. Rufus ignored him, muttering in the lost tongue of a pre-human civilisation that had worked great sorcerous happenings yet had never invented the vowel.

Jonathan L. Howard

#97. The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills - and as immortal.

James Branch Cabell

#98. Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.

Michael Chabon

#99. Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression; they exist where a word has never intruded.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#100. I've become remarkably good at blocking impossibly bizarre happenings from my consciousness. Denial can be a beautiful thing.

M.A. George