1.
We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.
Carl Jung
We aren't defined by our past, but rather the future we strive to create.
2.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
R. C. Sproul
'Why do unfortunate circumstances befall virtuous individuals? That only occurred once and He selflessly offered Himself.'
3.
There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
Johnny Cash
'I have been accused of misdeeds that I never committed, but equally, there are some acts of which I am guilty that went undetected.'
4.
What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.
Anne Frank
It is an encouraging prospect that the best times of our lives are still to come.
5.
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is preferable to have taken a chance and not succeeded than to go through life wondering what could have been if I had taken the risk.
6.
Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.
John Trudell
All of our experiences have been designed to build resilience.
7.
Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.
Donald Woods Winnicott
Reveal to me your apprehensions and I will illuminate what has occurred.
8.
Everything good that has happened to me has happened as a direct result of something bad.
Harry Caray
'Every blessing I have experienced is a consequence of some misfortune.'
9.
The future isn’t ahead of us. It has already happened.
Philip Kotler
'The future is not something to come; it has already been determined.'
10.
In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…
Vin Scully
In this unprecedented year, the unimaginable has transpired…
11.
There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.
Matthew Healy
12.
What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting - it starts from within.
Kendrick Lamar
13.
You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.
Sebastian Vettel
14.
It’s always been in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened.
William Kentridge
15.
Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
Nick Cave
17.
The most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me was when I was wearing a hair extension and it fell out on set.
Oliver Sykes
18.
Everything good that's ever happened to me came out of helping others.
Danny Trejo
19.
If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.
Russell Means
20.
If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.
Bjork
21.
The Bible is true, and some of it actually happened.
Marcus Borg
22.
It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.
Fabian Cancellara
23.
Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.
Tony Clark
24.
The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.
Joe Walsh
25.
Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.
Geneen Roth
26.
Last year nothing happened The year before nothing happened And the year before that nothing happened.
Osamu Dazai
27.
I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.
Gene Kelly
28.
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
William Eggleston
29.
Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.
Mark Twain
30.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
Alice Munro
31.
Unless you are a part of someone's life every day or even just with them most of the time, you will never really know what they have and had, what happened with them and how they really are, what they do, why they do it that way and what they feel.
Sister Souljah
32.
It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
Ida Tarbell
33.
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
David Lynch
34.
A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image.
Helen Frankenthaler
35.
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine
36.
Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.
Wayne Dyer
37.
Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.
Dan Harmon
38.
I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
Anne Truitt
39.
If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.
James MacDonald
40.
Why do the good die? That only happened once.
KB
41.
Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.
Tommy Chong
42.
When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.
Bryan Kest
43.
I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.
John Kasich
44.
The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.
John Daido Loori
46.
The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
Evelyn Underhill
47.
Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.
Katherine Anne Porter
48.
The things we fear the most have already happened to us.
Robin Williams
49.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams
50.
I do everything the same, like nothing ever happened to me.
Fetty Wap