There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.
That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened.
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.
Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed...
Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.
Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.
Things don’t happen for a reason, things give you reasons to make things happen.
Malone: Don't wait for it to happen. Don't even want it to happen. Just watch what does happen.
The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.
...you can’t plan out or perfectly schedule the big moments in your life. They just happen to you when they happen, sometimes because you made them happen and sometimes because you couldn’t stop them from happening.
One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It’s like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face.
A couple days before the stunts, if I'm doing something particularly dangerous, I will go over every worst-case scenario in my head, like this could happen, this could happen, this could happen, this could happen. I try to think about that to where i...
Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.
I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.
Denial exists when three beliefs intersect: 1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you. 3. It cannot happen to you now.
