When Bad Things Happen Quotes:

Certainly there are times in all of our lives when bad things happen, or things don’t turn out as we had hoped. But that’s when we we must a decision that we’re going to be happy inspite of our circumstances.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Decision, When Bad Things Happen, Circumstances, Bad Things Happen

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

- Richelle Mead

topic: Evil, Good Things, When Bad Things Happen

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

- Natalie du Toit

topic: Being Positive, Trying, Use, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Grades

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

- Harold S. Kushner

source: Maya Banks (2012). “Echoes at Dawn”, p.207, Penguin

topic: Perfect, People, Forgiving, Why Things Happen, When Bad Things Happen

Bad things happen, but you can still live.

- Joel Courtney

topic: Stills, Things Happen, Bad Things Happen, When Bad Things Happen

This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.

- Warren Rudman

topic: People, May, Sound, When Bad Things Happen, Natural Disaster

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

- Young Jeezy

topic: Thinking, Skills, People, When Bad Things Happen, Life Skills

The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

- Natalie Massenet

topic: Opportunity, Thinking, Luck, When Bad Things Happen, Positive Person

Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

- Drew Brees

source: Drew Brees (2010). “Coming Back Stronger: Unleashing the Hidden Power of Adversity”, p.23, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

topic: Fighting, Pressure, Disappear, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

When bad things happen, part of us might go away. It's a survival technique. You can't stand to be around when there's so much grief or pain in your life so part of you goes away. Shamans call this soul loss.

- Robert Moss

source: "Robert Moss:'If You Want to Be A Shaman, Start At The Breakfast Table'". Interview with Krysta Gibson, for the New Spirit Journal, July 2012, July 3, 2012.

topic: Pain, Grief, Loss, When Bad Things Happen

Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Jobs, Mistake, Responsibility, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.

- Yamamoto Tsunetomo

topic: War, Looks, World, When Bad Things Happen

But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can still feel a little sad. And that's life, isn't it?

- Gabrielle Zevin

source: Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.166, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Life, Believe, Everyday, When Bad Things Happen

We have some role in almost everything that happens in our lives. When "bad" things happen, the mistake is not in the role, but in calling them bad. For in calling them bad, we call ourselves bad, since we had a role in their creation. We then have only two choices: blame ourselves, or disown our creative power, neither of which is congruent with our highest purpose.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Mistake, Two, Choices, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you.

- Sofia Vergara

source: "Sofia Vergara's Secrets: The Esquire Cover Story" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2012.

topic: Drama, Giving, Support, When Bad Things Happen

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

- John Wozniak

topic: Mother, Taught, Guides, When Bad Things Happen

I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.

- Philip Yancey

source: Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

topic: Divorce, Simple, Opposites, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

- Elizabeth Hurley

topic: Weed, Garden, Evil, When Bad Things Happen

Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.

- Peter Steele

topic: Pain, Suffering, Earth, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow." Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call it "the present." Children understand that tonow is the place to live. The present is really the only moment we have. Sure, bad things can happen in the tonow. But when bad things happen to children, they show us the way again, because they know how to be in touch with their feelings and needs.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Children, Feelings, Needs, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

- Peter York

topic: People, Feelings, Pressure, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

- Judith McNaught

source: Judith McNaught (1991). “Something Wonderful”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love Life, Years, Promise, When Bad Things Happen

Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!

- LaToya Jackson

topic: Stay Strong, Book, Pages, When Bad Things Happen, Bad Things Happen