What Is Happening Quotes

#1. What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain ... To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.

Arundhati Roy

#2. St. Augustine wrote something once, something I think about often," he said. " 'God triumphs on the ruins of our plans.' And maybe that is what is happening here. We make blunders, we make mistakes, and somehow new doors open, new possibilities arise, opportunities of which we've never dreamed.

Anne Rice

#3. You can always choose how you prefer to respond to any external circumstances. Do not define your happiness by what is happening around you. Be happy only because this is what you enjoy doing.

Raphael Zernoff

#4. We are most often focused on what is happening to us, but God is more concerned about what is happening in us.

Pete Wilson

#5. But why?" Vimbai whispered, overwhelmed with the weight of accumulated disbelief. "What is happening to us?"
"Who knows?" Maya shrugged. "Who cares? Enjoy it while you can, why don't you? There will be tons of boring shit in your life, okay? I promise.

Ekaterina Sedia

#6. In the theatre, because you're all looking at the same thing in the same space, consciousness is no longer individual. There is a unified consciousness. Until you look and project what is happening, it doesn't exist; the audience are the ones making the theatre, not the players.

Simon McBurney

#7. I don't use the big video screens that a lot of other artists use because personally, I think it's kind of a crutch. I think sometimes it's like watching television as opposed to really getting involved with what is happening onstage and the people in your section.

Eric Church

#8. I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

Richard MacDonald

#9. If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

Jim Butcher

#10. What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

Terence McKenna

#11. But I did it because you can't constantly be afraid of what might happen. If you do, you lose control of what is happening, and all the joy and pain it holds for you.

Nora Roberts

#12. When you are taking fixed dosages of amino acids, what is happening in the kidneys mimics exactly what is happening in the brain.

Daniel Kalish

#13. There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

Marshall McLuhan

#14. Our past is a fictional representation, and the only thing we can be even somewhat sure of is what is happening now. It encourages us to live in the moment and not to place too much importance on our past. It forces us to accept that the best time of our lives, and our memory, is right now. And

Julia Shaw

#15. The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

J. William Fulbright

#16. If it's achievement that you place your value in, you're never going to achieve enough. If it's power, you always need to wield power over others. If it's money, you'll never be rich enough. But if you do something and are a part of what is happening, then you're always in it and it's always enough.

Jason Segel

#17. What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

Sebastiao Salgado

#18. A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

Andrew O'Hagan

#19. When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche.

Laurie Foos

#20. Passionate and forcefully argued, Tar Sands is a wake-up call not just to Canadians but to the wider world to take a serious look at what is happening in northern Alberta. To call this book a polemic is a compliment.

Margaret MacMillan

#21. interest in what is happening

Bill Dedman

#22. It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.

Ervin Seale

#23. We are dependent on each other in so many ways that we can no longer live in isolated communities and ignore what is happening outside those communities.

Dalai Lama XIV

#24. A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Gertrude Stein

#25. Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

Andy Warhol

#26. I think that what is happening now in terms of the Brexit vote does represent a serious undermining of the Good Friday Agreement.

Martin McGuinness

#27. Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.

Helen McCrory

#28. A snake knows more about what is happening around than any other creature, because it has no ears to listen to gossip - only direct perception.

Jaggi Vasudev

#29. Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

John Podhoretz

#30. I wasn't born thin. I train. But I would never starve myself. I mean, what is happening with women these days? I just couldn't see myself looking that thin. I like a bit of waist and leg.

Nicole Appleton

#31. The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.

Bertrand Russell

#32. The planets show what is happening, the signs how it is happening, and the houses where it is happening.

Howard Sasportas

#33. I don't read newspapers in the morning. I take a look at the dailies in the afternoon, but only when I've finished my work for the day. Reading about what is happening in Turkey once again would only be demoralizing for me.

Orhan Pamuk

#34. I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

John Wilmot

#35. I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

Gavrilo Princip

#36. You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

Thomas Merton

#37. Don't worry too much if you don't pass exams, so long as you feel you have understood the subject. It's amazing what you can get by the ability to reason things out by conventional methods, getting down to the basics of what is happening.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#38. Money ... is always the great clue to what is happening in the world.

Agatha Christie

#39. They [the stars] just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that's fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening.

M.L. Stedman

#40. What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#41. Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#42. I cannot morally blame all Americans for allowing, for instance, the birth of the Federal Reserve System and the money destruction that has followed. They are simply ignorant about it and don't know what happened or what is happening. They think that prices go up rather than that dollars go down.

Robert Prechter

#43. We are, quite rightly, not interested in the theoretical issue of suffering and evil; rather, we are torn apart by what is happening to real people, to those we know and love.

Stanley Hauerwas

#44. Dear God ... I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

Alice Walker

#45. I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that we have to make among ourselves in order to force the government to do differently. Things do not start with governments.

Grace Lee Boggs

#46. To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

Robert Byrd

#47. You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.

Lee L Jampolsky

#48. How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

Tony Robbins

#49. Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

Octavio Paz

#50. The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.

Elizabeth Thornton

#51. I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.

Jonas Mekas

#52. Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

#53. I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.

Meryl Streep

#54. Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Gloria Steinem

#55. What is happening in Nigeria is an absolute atrocity,

Masai Ujiri

#56. Here is where it leads us. And let me make this clear: there is nothing that happened in that wounding experience with that church that is worth what is happening to you now.

Stephen Mansfield

#57. Even though your life is Rainy and
muggy you can fight through it just
Make sure you know what is happening
And make sure you don't take to much
pressure on it just shake it off!

Skye Daphne

#58. I think that I'm just the same, but there is sometimes that you just have to be real. You have to look in the mirror and be real with yourself and you have go: 'You know what? I am the best in the world. What is happening?'

Mickie James

#59. Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

Marshall McLuhan

#60. I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

Virat Kohli

#61. As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

Marjane Satrapi

#62. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

Douglas Adams

#63. The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.

John McCain

#64. Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

Anna Deavere Smith

#65. Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

Sakyong Mipham

#66. Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

Tilopa

#67. We should look closely on what is happening at the moment, guys with little moustaches can pop up everywhere now given this instable economic situation. A look into history shows us what that could mean.

Steve Keen

#68. There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.

John Wain

#69. I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening ... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

Jack Germond

#70. I think ghosts would be some energy that hasn't found a home yet. I don't think they have any personal attachment to what is happening here. I've definitely been in a place where I've felt some energy that someone was watching me.

Jeordie White

#71. You never know what is happening to yourself when it is happening.

Elaine Stritch

#72. At last
He is healed of his self-doubt.
Now what is happening ?
He is awakening
To his souls ecstasy-sun.

Sri Chinmoy

#73. As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?

Marcy Kaptur

#74. Reed kissed her softly. Live for now. Find your way. We can still be together. Forever. Don't think about the unknown and what could happen when we don't even know what is happening.

Carrie Ann Ryan

#75. I set up a system, and the system can catch part of what is happening in the world - what's going on in the world - an appearance in the world, and suspend that appearance itself from being important ... The work is about the system.

Douglas Huebler

#76. I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#77. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

Karl A. Menninger

#78. All addictions have one thing in common - they numb you out to what is happening in the moment.

Barbara De Angelis

#79. Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past.

Dmitry Medvedev

#80. What is happening today is that there are millions of children who are not lifted up to the first rung of the ladder. Then they are condemned when they don't know how to climb from there.

Marianne Williamson

#81. What many fail to realize is that being attached to what we think we want and don't have while resisting what is happening in the moment is the cause, not the cure, of much personal suffering and interpersonal conflict.

Lee L Jampolsky

#82. Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us.

Jon Oringer

#83. What do the Gandhi-caps in Delhi know about the Punjab? What is happening on the other side in Pakistan does not matter to them. They have not lost their homes and belongings; they haven't had their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters raped and murdered in the streets.

Khushwant Singh

#84. Look behind you: What have you learned?
Look around you: What is happening to others?
Look above you: What does God expect of you?
Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

John C. Maxwell

#85. Everybody can use more love. Do not take offense if people are rude or unkind or seem like they are trying to hurt your feelings. You cannot know what is happening with them. Send them love no matter how they act. It will come back to you many times over as increased love in your life.

Orin

#86. In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing the Chinese industry the exact reverse of what is happening now. World economics have turned full circle.

Martin Sorrell

#87. If I can't trust my child with what is happening in our home how do I think he or she will ever experience trust?

K.L. Jordaan

#88. I love listening to new stuff, at home in LA I always have the radio on to hear what is happening.

Tom Jones

#89. I don't believe that you can give the same performance every take. It's physically impossible, so why bother? If you don't do what is happening at that moment, then it's not real. Then you're holding something back.

Bill Murray

#90. For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

Loretta Devine

#91. You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.

John Kuypers

#92. If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

Pete Sessions

#93. We are now running out of time, and the question now is not what is happening to the climate, but how bad will it be before the world starts doing enough?

Jonathon Porritt

#94. Personal Responsibility is the acknowledgement of the fact that I am personally responsible for what is happening in my life, in my surrounding and in my nation.

Sunday Adelaja

#95. Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without criticism or judgment.

Jan Chozen Bays

#96. I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#97. Social media allows people to connect. So instead of reading about the Arab Spring, I can have students following along, in real-time, with what is happening.

Steven Anderson

#98. Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us

Kishore Bansal

#99. When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.

Erwin McManus

#100. When I fight about what is going on in the neighborhood, or when I fight about what is happening to other people's children, I'm doing that because I want to leave a community and a world that is better than the one I found.

Marian Wright Edelman