Happens Quotes

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that's going to happen, and the people who are going to make it happen.

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.

Selfless giving has a lot to do with what happens to you in the future. There is karma, both good and bad.

Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses. I don't necessarily believe in linear time. Everything happens all at once forever.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is another matter. I don't feel that's really up to us. That happens at a certain time when our being has gone through countless changes and refinements.

Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.

The integrity of the subtle body is totally important. As the subtle body wears, we get sick. That is why, eventually, the body dies - it's because something happens to the subtle body.

If you know that you have had countless lives, then what happens in this life is not quite as traumatic.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify them.

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you inwardly, in a karmic sense.

The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.

A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.

I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?

You've got a lot going for you, you see. By just describing well with it, something happens.

What happens when your world ends? Your lover steals your heart...and your father casts you out...and you fall.

Do not tarry, do not stop, no matter what happens.

I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

I made nothing happen very slowly.

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

The journey from love to love. This is the journey all of us are on- what happens between teh beginning and end of the journey is your life.

I'm sure if you were a Bosnian during the war, you would wish to kill Serbs. Just because it is the opposite of you and because they're aggressors. And also, it happens to me when I get attacked.

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Anything can happen in one day.

I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.

Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.

I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else.

I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens.

In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it.

What happens to you here is forever.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.

Whatever happens, we can deal with it if we admit that it's happening and so on. So to be comfortable with what is - that is a real superpower.