Events Quotes

When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.

Whenever you fall pick something up.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive tolerate the unpleasant cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable.

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

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

When things go wrong don't go with them.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

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.

Losses are comparative only imagination makes them of any moment.

So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.

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

Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.

Not all events are stories.

Then the clarifying thing happens, and what you need to do, what you must do, is not a question, not demand more revelation than what is given, be quiet in the face of it, quiet and grateful that it has been given to you to see this, to be for even a short time aware of the extraordinary layered depths and profound beauty of the world to which we mostly blind ourselves.

To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

You have no control of uncertainties! You can only control your life and your reaction to any event. May you find grace for patient endurance.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

The event of history is hidden in time.

To accept whatever comes regardless of the consequences is to be unafraid.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

For us to change history, we first need to change the future.

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.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

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

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

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

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.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.

Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.

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

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.

Have you ever thought that if one thing hadn't happened, a whole set of things never would have either? Like dominoes in time, a single event kicked off an unstoppable series of changes that gained momentum and spun out of control, and nothing was ever the same again. Don't ever doubt that a mere second can change your life forever.

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.

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.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm miracles can happen.

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Don't curse the darkness - light a candle.

People often ask if I pay my speakers to speak. No I don’t. If you are able to explain the benefits of the virtual summit to the speaker (which we address in chapter 5) then it will be easy for you to get the caliber of speakers you want.

Laughter is ever young whereas tragedy except the very highest of all quickly becomes haggard.

I have no regrets. I believe in God, who controls every sacred-event.

Everyday we are innudated with exciting string of events on social media and news, even suffer sensory overload at times. Keep it simple; embrace one thing at a time

Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.

Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of the events.

The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of the self, reviving old feelings, reviewing the past. Whatever is retrieved is reworked into a new form, one that narrates events and gives the listener a path through these events that leads to some fragment of wisdom. The one who hears takes the story in, even to a place not visible or conscious to the mind, yet there. In this inner place a story from another life suffers a subtle change. As it enters the memory of the listener it is augmented by reflection, by other memories, and even the body hearing and responding in the moment of the telling. By such transmissions, consciousness is woven.

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

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.