I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
Charles Spurgeon

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus

We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
Alan Watts

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Charles R. Swindoll

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Spike Milligan

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
Andy Rooney

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
Albert Schweitzer

We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
Chuck Palahniuk

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross