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Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.
- Marcus Aurelius
As the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.
- Marcus Aurelius
Originally tragedies were bought on to remind us of real events, and that such things naturally occur, and that on life's greater stage you must not be vexed at things, which on the stage you find so attractive.
- Marcus Aurelius
It's the unbroken calm, both within and without, that is getting to her. Real events happen to people, she thinks, why not me? And then there's her conviction that they are happening, all around her, but that they're being kept from her.
- Margaret Atwood
The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time
- Erwin McManus
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.
- Tony Robbins
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
duties are ours, events are the Lord's.
- Samuel Rutherford
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.
- Stephen Jay Gould
During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.
- Joseph Wirthlin
Claims for the occurrence of miraculous events will have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. There can be no general theory to cover the character of unique events, but the refusal to contemplate the possibility of revelatory disclosures of an unprecedented kind would be an unacceptable limitation, imposed arbitrarily on the horizons of religious thought.
- John Polkinghorne