#happen

There is a moment in our healing journey when our denial crumbles; we realize our experience and it's continued effects on us won't "just go away". That's our breakthrough moment. It's the sun coming out to warm the seeds of hope so they can grow our personal garden of empowerment ~ Jeanne McElvaney ↗

— Jeanne McElvaney

#abuse-survivors #childhood-abuse #childhood-sexual-abuse #effects-of-child-abuse #harrietta-s-happenstance

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#truth-of-life #life

Mormons invented themselves just as other religious and ethnic groups invented themselves. But Mormons did so in such a singularly impressive way that we will probably always remain baffled as to how exactly it happened. ↗

— Laurence Moore

#ethnic-group #how-it-happened #lds #mormon #mormonism

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#director #face #following #hands #happened

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ↗

— Woody Allen

#afraid #am #death #happens #i

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world. ↗

— Ted Allen

#cooking #cuisines #cultures #curiosity #guest

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

— Epictetus

#how #matters #react #you

I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen. ↗

— Tori Amos

#especially #even #events #going #good

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie. ↗

— Tori Amos

#good #good people #happen #know #lie

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#becomes #center #chip #dizzying #got