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Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.
One of the best questions you can ask when something negative happens is this: 'What does this experience make possible?'
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.
There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is
The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.
Nobody would say, 'I'm voting for this guy because he's got the stronger chin,' but that, in fact, is partly what happens.
I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.
You never know what's going to happen. That's why I like acting. It's precious to me to be able to live more than one life.
How it will happen, how the Universe will bring it to you, is not your concern or job. Allow the Universe to do it for you.
Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?
Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.
They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.
America's going to come back, and for that to happen, we're going to have to have a president who can work across the aisle.
We're all divided, but some of us have children, and we are invested in the future and would like to see good things happen.
You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.
Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?
I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.
There's a lot of power in putting it out in the universe. It's telling your subconscious mind, 'This is what's gonna happen.'
In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.
We are the producers of our own thinking. Thought is not something that happens to us, but something that we do to ourselves.
'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'
When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
My thing is to gain the respect as an actor, as a professional, and the friendship and everything else will happen from there.
You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.
I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.
in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.
The same things happen to quite an extent around the globe. I mean, the European banks were doing what the American banks were.
There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be a place.
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.
[The politicians] become nothingness and they don't do the job that they got elected to do. And it happens time and time again.