Quotes & Sayings About Everything Happens For A Reason

I guess I'm not a very spiritual person. I don't think things always 'happen for a reason,' everything must be 'God's way,' or (and this is one of Karen's favorites) 'He only gives you what you can handle.' I simply believe, and I'm sorry to sound crude about it, that shit happens. Period.

Sometimes you are the pigeon.
Sometimes you are the statue. — Jessica Topper

How can it be all right?" "Everything happens for a reason. It was meant to be this way; this day, this reason, this cause, this way. — Shelly Crane

God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason. — Justin Tuck

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason. — Boris Becker

Everything happens for a reason, but not everything needs to be explained — Erin Mack Smith

Amanda learned a valuable lesson. Everything happens for a reason and in the end, you will be happy. — Corrine Annette Zahra

Everything happens for a reason," she finally said.
"What?" Chase scoffed as his eyes flashed back to hers. "Oh you've got to be kidding me."
"Why?"
"Because it's total horseshit," he laughed. "That's just some crap people say when something bad happens and they have no way to explain it. It's a pathetic way to try and make somebody feel better. And if anything, it has the reverse effect."
Andie shrugged. "I disagree."
"Anytime anyone has ever said that to me, it just made me want to punch them in the face."
"That's because you're an asshole," she said matter-of factly. — Priscilla Glenn

Then they will have drinks and a meal and talk about the grace of God and how everything happens for a reason. God's grace is a pretty cool concept. It stays intact every time it's not you. — Stephen King

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don't regret much in my life. — Jaime Pressly

If there were two things Silas McFuller knew about the world, it was that life is not always fair, but everything happens for a reason. — Megan Duke

The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up. — Thomas Ligotti

There are no coincidences in this world ... You must see with the eagle's eye. You must detach, lift above a conundrum, and map the terrain of it. Everything happens for a reason, if you can but discern the pattern. — Karen Marie Moning

Gods and demons, being creatures outside of time, don't move in it like bubbles in the stream. Everything happens at the same time for them. This should mean that they know everything that is going to happen because, in a sense, it already has. The reason they don't is that reality is a big place with a lot of interesting things going on, and keeping track of all of them is like trying to use a very big video recorder with no freeze button or tape counter. It's usually easier just to wait and see. — Anonymous

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason. — Carrot Top

Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative. — Brian Tracy

So it goes."
Unlike many of these quotes, the repeated refrain from Vonnegut's classic Slaughterhouse-Five isn't notable for its unique wording so much as for how much emotion - and dismissal of emotion - it packs into three simple, world-weary words that simultaneously accept and dismiss everything. There's a reason this quote graced practically every elegy written for Vonnegut over the past two weeks (yes, including ours): It neatly encompasses a whole way of life. More crudely put: "Shit happens, and it's awful, but it's also okay. We deal with it because we have to. — Kurt Vonnegut

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. — Harvey MacKay

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.' — Neil Peart

I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won't take BS from anyone. And I think it's making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in. — Britney Spears

There's a reason people say everything happens for a reason, but don't think about that reason too much, because then you'll turn into the unhappy "skeptical one" of the group. — Jay Clark

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes you won't be on the beneficial end of it but either way it's a blessing in disguise. — Behdad Sami

I really think everything happens for a reason. — Lily Collins

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do ... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life. — Georges St-Pierre

If I was able to have the game I have and shoot 80% from the line, I'd probably be an arrogant person rather than a humble one. Everything happens for a reason. — Shaquille O'Neal

How else do you think life happens? A series of coincidences and occurrences have to happen somehow. Our lives all crash and collide and you think there's no reason or rhyme to it? If there wasn't any reason for it all, what would be the point? Why do you think anything happens at all? There is an outcome, repercussions and occurrences to everybody you meet and everything you say. — Cecelia Ahern

Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful. — Criss Jami

Everything happens for a reason. I believe in this at the highest level. — Mpho Koaho

There is nothing that can happen TO you that can't also happen FOR you ... if you'll let it. — Mandy Hale

Everything happens for a reason, what is meant to be will be. — Elizabeth J. Van Amelsvoort

Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out. — Oprah Winfrey

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood. — Freddy Adu

I don't know what I believe anymore. If God does exist, then He's just an asshole, creating this world full of human suffering and letting all these terrible things happen to good people, and sitting there and doing nothing about it. At June's memorial service, a few people came up to me and said some really stupid things, like how everything happens for a reason, and God never gives us more than we can handle. All I could think was, does that mean if I was a weaker person, this never would've happened? Am I seriously supposed to buy that June's death was part of some stupid divine plan? I don't believe that. I can't. It just doesn't make sense. — Hannah Harrington

Jack wasn't built in a way to ever regret the path his life took. He believed that everything happens for a reason. Although, I'm not sure he would feel the same way now seeing as he died jumping on that new path he dug for his life. — Harper Sloan

Love conquers all...
Every cloud has a silver lining...
Faith can move mountains...
Love will always find a way...
Everything happens for a reason...
Where there is life, there is hope.
...Hmph...They gotta tell ya somethin'. — Aileen Wuornos

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason. — Nelly

When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there. — Mandy Hale

Everything always happens for a reason. — Eminem

I'd never been a big fan of that saying, "Everything happens for a reason," but maybe, sometimes, every once in a while, things coalesced into a complex, intangible reason. With tattoos and piercings and bad words and unfailing loyalty topped with a temper. And in its own imperfect way, it couldn't have been any better. — Mariana Zapata

I don't believe in fate ... but ... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in ... Maybe I'm wrong, but it's gotten me this far. It's the reason I fight, the reason I can keep going, despite everything. And it ... it led me to you. — Julie Kagawa

Everything happens for a reason, it's up to you to
determine the reason it happened.
- Nate Spears — Nate Spears

I do not know that everything happens for a reason. I simply know that everything happens. — Erin Loechner

Everything happens for a reason. Life. Death. Suffering and joy. There is a frightening beauty in all this that I don't want to lose, even if there's pain, too. — Elizabeth Hunter

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win. — James Harden

A God who knew the answer to that question would indeed know everything and have everything. For that reason he would be unmotivated to do anything or create anything. There would be no purpose to act in any way whatsoever. But a God who had one nagging question - what happens if I cease to exist? - might be motivated to find the answer in order to complete his knowledge ... The fact that we exist is proof that God is motivated to act in some way. And since only the challenge of self-destruction could interest an omnipotent God, it stands to reason that we ... are God's debris. — Scott Adams

In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction. — A.M. Willard

Why bad things happen to good people — Harold S. Kushner

I do believe everything happens for a reason, and I'm extremely grateful for that day because it led me into this life! — J. R. Martinez

Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement in the same circle. We never would have chosen these neighbors; life chose them for us. But thrown together on this island of living, we stretch to understand each other and are invigorated by the stretching. The difficulty with big city environment is that if we select - and we must in order to live and breathe and work in such crowded conditions - we tend to select people like ourselves, a very monotonous diet. All hors d'oeuvres and no meat; or all sweets and no vegetables, depending on the kind of people we are. But however much the diet may differ between us, one thing is fairly certain: we usually select the known, seldom the strange. We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

With everything there is what to do. — Auliq Ice

Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34. — Melody Beattie

I learned a long time ago that everything happens for a reason. But nothing really matters anyway. — Aaron B. Powell

What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason
and it's not to fail and die. — Ransom Riggs

I prefer to subscribe to that whole, "everything happens for a reason" theory, mostly because the alternative is too disturbing to think about. — Lauren Barnholdt

Everything happens for a reason, we just don't get the reason with the thing — Linda Carvelli

I knew in that moment that everything happens for a reason, but we can't always know the reason when the journey begins. Some things we can only understand at the end of our journey. — Mike Ericksen

On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both. — Yehuda Berg

know that everything happens for a reason. You are where you're supposed to be. Anything worth having is worth fighting for. — Shelly Crane

When you face challenges, ask yourself what is the lesson here? Focus on the lesson and don't complain about the test. Everything happens for a reason. Every person you meet, may teach you something - good or bad. — Rita Zahara

I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here. — Golshifteh Farahani

Everything happens for a reason? I don't see it that way at all. To me, only the first part is clear: Everything happens. Then other things happen, and other things, still. Out of each of these moments, we make something. Any number of somethings, in fact.

What comes of our own actions becomes the "reason." It is no predestined thing. We may arrive where we are by way of a specific path - we can take just one at a time - but it's never the only one that could have led us to our destination. Nor does a single event, even a string of them, point decisively to a single landing spot. There are infinite possible versions of our lives. Meaning is not what happens, but what we do with what happens when it does. — Jessica Fechtor

But I was coming to learn that much of your perception of a relationship is shaped by everything else that happens to be going on in your life at the time. When I first met Ed Farley, I had been starved for love. He was the first man I'd ever known to show me kindness. Hr had taken my loneliness away. And for that I knew I would always be grateful. But being grateful was not enough of a reason to stay with someone. — Patricia Park

Sometimes a "mistake" can end up being the best decision you ever make. — Mandy Hale

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn't. — David Shields

No, it's just, if everything happens for a reason," Elizabeth persists, "as personally, I believe that it does, then when I hear a story of how two people came together, it's like a piece of the plan is being revealed. — Emily St. John Mandel

The idea that everything happens for a reason comes from people who've been lucky all their lives. — T. Baggins

The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up. — Karen Salmansohn

Everything happens for a reason; I'm a big believer in that. — Rajon Rondo

I believe everything negative that happens in your life is for a positive reason. If your heart breaks, you know that you are a human being and it happens. But you can't mope over it. There's only one life. You better get on ahead and fast. Fast enough not to let your past ever catch up with you. — Bipasha Basu

I've learned that everything happens for a reason," the yogi Krishnan told him. "Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson ... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is. — Robin S. Sharma

I hear her slip into bed with him, and I hear everything that happens after that. Sex is such a strange and sloppy business, why bother to recount every slurp and moan that ensued? Tom and Honey deserve their privacy, and for that reason I will end my report of the night's activities here. If some readers object, I ask them to close their eyes and use their imaginations. — Paul Auster

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
(in Thief of Time) — Terry Pratchett

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing. — Adam Hamilton

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong. — Gail Devers

I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself known. — Christina Lauren

I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person. — Mayim Bialik

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether or not you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God. (Although there's no question a belief in God would come in handy. It would be great to think there's a plan, and that everything happens for a reason. I don't happen to believe that. And every time one of my friends says to me, "Everything happens for a reason," I would like to smack her.) — Nora Ephron

I don't believe everything happens for a reason. But I still search for reasons anyway. It's like I don't want to admit that maybe everything really is totally random ... that people are just molecules in the air, bumping into each other and floating away again.
-p150, NOTES TO SELF — Avery Sawyer

Everything happens in life for a reason! — Santonu Kumar Dhar

Everything Happens For A Reason — Janelle R. Moore

Sometimes our emotions get in the way of our ability to make clear decisions and this was one of them. But I don't think you should regret it. Everything happens for a reason. — Loni Flowers

I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but ... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in. — Julie Kagawa

I'm definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that I've gotten from everybody - from my fans, to people that I've idolized my whole life. So it's overwhelming, it's amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so I'm in a really good place right now. — Pia Toscano

When it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. — Ransom Riggs

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner. — Margot Robbie

Once you realize that everything happens for a reason, attitudes towards matters such as illnesses, or lawsuits, for example, change. — Shari Arison

I personally believe in some sort of divine order - or energy. I do believe that everything happens for a reason. I do think that when something bad happens to someone it's with the purpose of awakening them. I do think there is some force behind that. I don't think there are accidents. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Everything happens for a reason. I'm used to it, I prepare for it. Like I say, at the end of the day, those in charge of their own destiny are going to do what's right for them and their family. — Shaquille O'Neal

Why does Eleanor let you have that much acid?" he asked. "Why would you want that much acid? You don't need that much acid."
"Except that it appears I do, since I have just enough to dissolve a human body, and we have a human body in need of dissolving," said Jack. "Everything happens for a reason. And Eleanor didn't 'let' me have this much acid. I sort of collected it on my own. For a rainy day."
"What were you expecting it to rain?" said Christopher. "Bears? — Seanan McGuire

I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today. — Michelle Phan

Govern your family as you would cook a small fish ------ very very gently. Everything in life happens for a reason and everything takes time... Allowing things to unfold gives you the opportunity to see it's beauty and be able to see every ripple and transformation. Be that diamond in your family and keep it together, family ties are strong look out for each other. Tell that person you LOVE them now don't waste time, call them up surprise them text them, show them you truly care. Have a blessed day everyone and remember I LOVE you too........ — Ainsley Carter

It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason,' she said. 'It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is'
...
'But if everything was always smooth and perfect,' she continued,'you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right. '
~Delia, pg 93 and 94 — Sarah Dessen

Everything in this world happens for a reason yet nothing in this world comes free. Hard work, endurance, determination, persistence, and strong will are key, But without faith you can only go so far before you lose yourself We are all hearts, minds, bodies, and souls searching for something - you are not the only one, So search, and you shall discover, look, and you shall certainly find, read and you shall only behold that the most logical of all answers was always right there before your very eyes' — Moez Masoud

It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life. — Hal Elrod

Never look back at your past, everything happens for a reason, keep your head up and look forward. the more you look back the more beautiful things you will miss in life. — Brandon Smith

Everything happens for a reason. Just be patient. — Michael Christos Zeis

They say that everything happens for a reason. Maybe one day, I will know what that reason is. Until then, I would live everyday correcting my wrongs. — Jessica N. Watkins

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense. — Gary Kemp

But if I've heard this saying once, I've heard it a thousand times- everything happens for a reason. And possibly it does. I just haven't found the reason that this all happened yet. — Jerry Lawler

One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose. — John Assaraf

Honestly, I feel like everything in life happens for a reason, and my son has been the greatest gift that God has given me in my life and been the most game-changing thing that's happened to my life, in a necessary way. — Ciara