Life Events Quotes

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

I realize that things happen for a reason.

My tryst with theatre began in 1968, after the last day of school in that academic year.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

There is properly no history; only biography.

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

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

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Every thing in life that's first should be a celebration or celebrated with a lot of oomph.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

I didn't really want to write something about my life story. I've kind of had a pretty smooth-sailing journey.

I guess there's a song for absolutely everything that could possibly happen to a person.