Events Quotes

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.

The event of history is hidden in time.

Noble souls through dust and heat rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

I'm not happy I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them.

To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

No matter what has happened always behave as if nothing had happened.

When we look back at life we realize no true moment defined us, but in fact the events leading up to that moment.

I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them and I have seen others snap right out and come back better than ever. I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it.

The holy time establish the holy-event.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

There is appointed time for every sacred event under the sun.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

Results? Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination the way you play it is free will.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( “If he doesn't play ball “ )

Right now though, there is little that concerns me more than the impending assault on the human rights and equality of women and the pink community in South Africa. Right now there are events afoot in this country which justify my concern.

God is in control of all events and is able to protect and provide for you His child.

When things go wrong don't go with them.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Planning of the next day’s activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Life's full of events - they occur and you adjust, you roll and move on. But at some point you realize some events are actually developments. You realize there's a big plan out there you know nothing about, and a development is a first step in that new direction. Sometimes things feel like big-time developmens but in time you adjust, you find a new way and realize they didn't throw you off course, they didn't change you. They were just events. The tricky part is telling the difference between the two.

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, make sit impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.

The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn’t happen - that it is our illicit desires that drive us crazy. A century ago, Freud recoiled from his own theory of the sexual seduction of children and projected the problem back into the patient. He claimed in his Aetiology of Hysteria that clients, typically women, were describing their fantasies, not facts, not ‘real events’. P3

Worrying about things that haven’t happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car—what’s the point?

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of events.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better not bitter.

Any man can shoot a gun and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.

Not all events are stories.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever even if your whole world seems upset.

Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

We can either change the complexities of life ... or develop ways that enable us to cope more effectively.

Keep strong if possible in any case keep cool.

We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

Concern should drive us into action not into a depression.

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.