Best 17 quotes in «life happens quotes» category

I never planned to acquire a lot of jewels or a lot of husbands. For me, life happened, just as it does for anyone else.

Everyone's life is a train wreck. Your life happens to be a high-class train wreck.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating.

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.

When I'm really stressed emotionally, I say to myself that there's only so much I can do to change things. Life happens on life's terms. Then, I go for a run.

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

Bad stuff does happen sometimes, always remember that but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky or the ocean and you move the hell on.

Life happens when you get lost in a dream.

It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the window appear against the branches of a spreading tree. With a shock of emotion one feels 'There are figures without features robed in beauty'. In the pause that follows while the ripples spread, the girl to whom one should be talking says to herself, 'He is old'. But she is wrong. It is not age; it is that a drop has fallen; another drop. Time has given the arrangement another shake. Out we creep from the arch of the currant leaves, out into a wider world. The true order of things – this is our perpetual illusion – is now apparent. Thus in a moment, in a drawing-room, our life adjusts itself to the majestic march of day across the sky.

Life happens; attitude finds a way.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.