Top 1200 Happens For A Reason Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

Redemption happens in many forms. It happens when one takes responsibility even when one need not.

A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

Totally. I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular. You’re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that you’re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

I have always been interested in that relationship between what happens in our head and what happens in the world.

If it happens, it happens, but because everything is going so well over here, we're not dying to break America.

In radio, they say, nothing happens until the announcer says it happens.

[Ideas] may not arrive exactly on time, it may not be the most convenient thing for you. For me that happens a very small amount, but if for whatever reason it's not arriving at the moment, it may last forever. Thinking about it won't change any of that.

Whatever happens happens, but learning from the players at Chelsea is a great experience.

It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.

What usually happens with me is that I start with one idea in mind and then something else happens.

No need to choose; become choiceless. And whatsoever happens happens; whatsoever happens is good. Let things happen rather than trying to do, and you will be surprised that all ambiguity disappears. It is a by-product of the chooser's mind, the choosing mind, that creates ambiguity. Otherwise there is no dilemma. Negative and positive are perfectly balancing in life.

Losing one final, that happens, but when it happens three times in a row, that is something else entirely.

Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves? Either God does or God doesn't, it's just logic. If God has a reason then there is a reason independent of God and whatever God's reason is we should figure it out for ourselves. There is a reason and God doesn't really ground morality at all. God wants us to give charity because it's the right thing to do.

If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.

Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for yourself. You cannot say: `I have earned it.` The happening is so great that it is always through grace and not through effort. It happens through effortlessness. Whenever it happens, you know well that it is through compassion, grace, that it has happened. It has nothing to do with you or your earning

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.

Whatever happens, it happens because we choose for it. We decide our fates.

Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.

You never want to have a stumble, but it happens sometimes. It happens, and you get through things.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

For me, it's whatever happens, happens. I'm just excited to play basketball. It's a blessing.

Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads

All I can do is keep going out there and playing hard, and whatever happens happens.

You have to be really, really confident in your decision to marry somebody. I don't think my parents were stupid, but I do think maybe it was rushed. But if they hadn't gotten married, my sister and I wouldn't be here. I think everything happens for a reason.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

Life happens. Love happens. You gotta take some chances.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

I never expect anything; I just go make a movie. I do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens.

I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.

I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.

The greatest flaw of human beings is to remain glued to the inventory of reason. Reason doesn't deal with man as energy. Reason deals with instruments that create energy, but it has never seriously occurred to reason that we are better than instruments: we are organisms that create energy. We are bubbles of energy.

It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

Before a revolution happens, it is perceived as impossible; after it happens, it is seen as having been inevitable.

Tennis taught me what happens when you really work on something, and what happens when you don't.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

There is no reason not to love. There is no reason not to be joyous. There is no reason not to celebrate because all of this means nothing, absolutely nothing. So why not be happy?

What happens across the planet can have a greater impact on your family than what happens down the street.

And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.

Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

No transaction happens unless it is voluntary. It only happens if both of you think you win.

I'm just playing my game and trying to help my team win. Whatever happens, happens.