Quotes about Life Events

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. Votes: 4

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. Votes: 3

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different. Votes: 3

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes. Votes: 3

What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind. Votes: 3

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event. Votes: 3

A substantial amount of research over the past decade has reinforced the idea that although internal happiness can deviate from its "resting state" in reaction to life events, it usually returns toward its baseline over time. Votes: 3

Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable. Votes: 3

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been! Votes: 3

Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences. Votes: 3

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital. Votes: 3

Men and women dream the same amount. The main difference in dream content relates to biology and life events. Women dream about their fertility, pregnancy and delivery, and have more dreams about children - owing to their role as primary caregivers. Other differences in dreams have been exaggerated. Votes: 3

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital. Votes: 3

When you're traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I've met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events. Votes: 3

Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! Votes: 3

This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of the altered states that trauma induces, which make it possible to survive a life-threatening event but impair the capacity to feel fear, and worse still, impair the ability to love. (292) Votes: 3

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through. Only the loss of a loved one and moving are even in its class, difficulty-wise-and divorcing generally involves both of those as well. Even when you are the one initiating the divorce, the enormous changes that result are bound to throw you off and leave you feeling, at the very least, a bit lost. Votes: 3

In real life, events seem much less dramatic. Votes: 2

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life. Votes: 2

I don't think events in your life affect your music. Votes: 2

I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13. Votes: 2

Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life. Votes: 2

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance. Votes: 2

I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine. Votes: 2

Your house is all about routine, not the unexpected events of your life. Votes: 2

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life. Votes: 2

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event. Votes: 2

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Votes: 2

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. Votes: 2

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short. Votes: 2

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Votes: 2

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life. Votes: 2

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. Votes: 2

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult. Votes: 2

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Votes: 2

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life. Votes: 2

There exist bright sunny moment in any events of life. Votes: 0

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. Votes: 0

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events. Votes: 0

Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph. Votes: 0

Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life. Votes: 0

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars. Votes: 0

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. Votes: 0

Nature of life is fragile. Uncontrollable events happen all the time in life. Votes: 0

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events. Votes: 0

Don't be in a hurry in life. The sacred-time determines the due events. Votes: 0

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life. Votes: 0

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. Votes: 0

Your responses to the events of life are more important than the events themselves. Votes: 0

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. Votes: 0

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events Votes: 0

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none. Votes: 0

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. Votes: 0

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects. Votes: 0

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Votes: 0

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short Votes: 0

Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced. Votes: 0

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need. Votes: 0

You hold all the potential for great synchronistic events to come together to transform your life. Votes: 0

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will. Votes: 0

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events. Votes: 0

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact. Votes: 0

Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone's life for eternity. Votes: 0

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death. Votes: 0

We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events? Votes: 0

There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend. Votes: 0

Whether the events in our life are good or bad, greatly depends on the way we perceive them. Votes: 0

I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again. Votes: 0

Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life. Votes: 0

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them. Votes: 0

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character. Votes: 0

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning. Votes: 0

Throughout my life, I have always found that events which seemed at the time disastrous ultimately developed into positive blessings. Votes: 0

There are many futures, not just one. Life is not like walking down the road and meeting the predetermined events. Votes: 0

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life. Votes: 0

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. Votes: 0

Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality. Votes: 0

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it... Votes: 0

I don't have a publicist, I don't go to events, I don't do magazines, and it's just not my life. Votes: 0

This day is the most recent set of events to define you. Every day changes your life. Every last one. Votes: 0

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. Votes: 0

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar. Votes: 0

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring. Votes: 0

A lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases. Votes: 0

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary. Votes: 0

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won. Votes: 0

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed. Votes: 0

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. Votes: 0

Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others. Votes: 0

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved. Votes: 0

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself. Votes: 0

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection Votes: 0

When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. Votes: 0

Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random. Votes: 0

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life. Votes: 0

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad. Votes: 0

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. Votes: 0

Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre. Votes: 0

Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre. Votes: 0

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it. Votes: 0

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would. Votes: 0

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings. Votes: 0

I learned there are ways to approach life. You can never change the events, but you can change the way you approach them. Votes: 0

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection Votes: 0

If you respect the events and respect the real life tragedy, you can drive your film to address it in some mature way. Votes: 0

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration. Votes: 0

When we look back at life we realize no true moment defined us, but in fact the events leading up to that moment. Votes: 0

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so. Votes: 0

I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man. Votes: 0

The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had. Votes: 0

When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play. Votes: 0

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas. Votes: 0

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it. Votes: 0

The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life. Votes: 0

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. Votes: 0

You can get into a place in your life where you no longer are in control of events, and events are in control of you. Votes: 0

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy. Votes: 0

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth. Votes: 0

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it. Votes: 0

I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there. I'm never at parties. Votes: 0

Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn. Votes: 0

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting. Votes: 0

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered? Votes: 0

Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance. Votes: 0

history records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ... Votes: 0

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass. Votes: 0

In all the events of life, you must recognize the Divine will. Adore and bless it, especially in the things which are the hardest for you. Votes: 0

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books. Votes: 0

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self. Votes: 0

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles. Votes: 0

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. Votes: 0

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment. Votes: 0

Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere. Votes: 0

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective. Votes: 0

It's not the events that shape my life that determine how I feel and act, but, rather, it's the way I interpret and evaluate my life experiences. Votes: 0

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive? Votes: 0

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. Votes: 0

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. Votes: 0

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us. Votes: 0

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions... Votes: 0

The events of my life are too unimportant, and have too little interest for any person not of my immediate family, to render them worth communicating or preserving. Votes: 0

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events. Votes: 0

Life is a continual flow of events, streaming in from the universal stream of consciousness in such a way that it exactly matches our own stream of consciousness. Votes: 0

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live. Votes: 0

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events. Votes: 0

Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go well Votes: 0

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it. Votes: 0

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean. Votes: 0

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed. Votes: 0

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. Votes: 0

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition. Votes: 0

If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important events never happen in your life before. Votes: 0

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life and some from what I see happening around me. Votes: 0

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence. Votes: 0

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities. Votes: 0

Even chance meetings are the result of karma"¦ Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence. Votes: 0