“I'm starting to reread a bunch of Gandhi and it was kind of traumatic, because he was so clearly, unbelievably amazing. And the stuff that he is suggesting is so profoundly opposite from what is happening in our world today.” WorldKindTodayStuffHappeningsOppositesStartingBunchOur WorldWorld TodaySuggesting Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“The work that I've been trying to do with violence against women and children comes from seeing quite a bit of violence. I just think it's important that we try to help the young boys who are watching the fathers do it - because if it's OK for the fathers to do it, then these young boys are watching their dads and going, well, nothing's happening to them, so maybe this is OK. But actually, this violence needs to stop in the sandpits.” IfsThinkingNeedsTryingWellsChildrenImportantHelpingYoungFatherBitsBoysViolenceSeeingDadHappeningsViolence Against Women Author:Kelly LeBrock
“I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.” ThinkingWorldDangerousHappeningsBeastWoundedPatriarchy Author:Jane Fonda
“For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.” MeanArtStillsHappensIndividualStuffPerceptionHappeningsFalsehoodAbstractionFallacyStuff I Like Author:Q-Tip
“Africa is being raped mainly by Asia, but the second largest market for dead endangered animals is the US. Most don't know this is happening. I didn't, but once I found out, I had to try and help.” KnowsTryingHelpingFoundAnimalHappeningsAsia Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten
“Ultimately, the disconnect with the earth we have going relates to a deeper sickness of losing touch with our souls, our bodies, our communities. The collective stories about what is happening need to change. We need to reclaim a sense that we have a say in how things go.” NeedsSoulStoriesBodyEarthCommunityLosingHappeningsDeeperRelateSicknessCollectivesOur CommunityNeed A Change Author:Frazey Ford
“Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism.” IdeasCountryHomeIdentityRight NowHappeningsCriticalFocusedLocalsArchitectBest WorkNational IdentityHome CountryRegionalism Author:Cameron Sinclair
“My yoga practice, I do it because when I get on my mat, I know I'm going to be transformed. I know that whatever stresses are in my life or whatever worries I have or whatever monkey mind is happening for me, when I get off the mat, I'm going to be transformed.” KnowsMindPracticeWorryHappeningsYogaStressTransformedMonkeysYoga PracticeMonkey Mind Author:Michael Franti
“Rock-and-roll was an example of change in the body of the culture. I think it's really what helped bring the anti-war movement to its peak and moved people into the streets to seize the day - the movement was the embodiment of what was happening in the music. This is what taught me that it was possible to bring art and activism together. Without that piece, that energetic embodiment piece, the rest is just intellectual construct.” PeopleThinkingArtWarBodyTogetherCulturePiecesStreetsRocksExampleMovementTaughtIntellectualHappeningsMovedActivismAnti WarRock And RollConstructsEnergeticEmbodimentSeize The DayAnti War Movement Author:Eve Ensler
“I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all these things that human beings are having negative impacts on at this time, are concerning to me. I wanted to do whatever I could to be a part of the solution and not just be a part of the problem.” HumansProblemKidsWantedParentWaterHuman BeingsOceanSolutionsHappeningsNegativeImpactDeforestation Author:Don Cheadle
“Water is an issue, and, clearly, what's happening with the filth in our environment and the levels of carbon monoxide in our atmosphere are the really scary issues right now, the very troubling ones.” WaterLevelsIssuesEnvironmentRight NowHappeningsScaryAtmosphereCarbonOur EnvironmentFilthReally Scary Author:Don Cheadle
“The question is not, "Is climate change happening?" Nor is the question, "Is climate change man-made?" Rather, we need to realize itʼs already here, and start asking, "What are we going to do about it?"” MenNeedsMadeRealizingHappeningsAskingClimateClimate Change Author:Jeff Orlowski
“I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.” FoundPlanetsHappeningsOur PlanetWildlifeEcosystems Author:Jeff Corwin
“We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.” YearsMillionsPlanetsHappeningsYears AgoExtinctionOur PlanetDinosaurs Author:Jeff Corwin
“See what's happening to our sisters around the world. I'm very interested in the protection of women globally.” WorldHappeningsProtectionAround The World Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“There's certainly a lot of noise in the hip-hop world now [that] I don't pay active attention to, but to the extent that I represent some flavor of what's happening in hip-hop - it's subconscious.” WorldPayAttentionHappeningsHip HopActiveNoiseHipsHopsSubconsciousFlavor Author:Baratunde Thurston
“You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt.” ThinkingKnowsGovernmentGrowthEconomyFiveEconomicHappeningsPercentSeventiesEconomic GrowthRoaring Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.” ThinkingUsedMediaProductsCreatingHappenings Author:Roger Ailes
“It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.” JobsHappenedFiguresHappeningsHappening Again Author:Hillary Clinton
“Growing up, I realized as an actor I had to figure out how to use my platform in order to give back as well and use that spotlight to shine, or at least to balance that light and to try to shine light onto the other issues that were happening in the world.” WorldGivingTryingWellsUseLightOrderActorsGrowing UpIssuesGrowingFiguresBalanceHappeningsShiningI RealizedPlatformsGiving BackSpotlight Author:Serinda Swan
“People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.” PeopleYearsLooksBlackProductsRevolutionHealthyEatingHappeningsHundredYears AgoBlameFilledFatsDietsMexicanCornRiceBeansTransFast FoodPeppersChileHealthy DietBlame MeMexican FoodMexican Revolution Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy.” PeopleHardHappensCertainWinningChanceRaceAcceptingCrazyHard WorkEasierHappeningsAcceptedThings HappenInjuredDecrease Author:Usain Bolt
“There's so many things happening with computers and what-not, where we may be able to live until 150 and even longer, but if the planet's not here for us to live on it, if we burn ourselves out from global warming and everything else, if we don't figure that out, if we don't figure out an alternative form of energy, I think we're in big, fat trouble.” IfsThinkingMayBigsAbleFormEnergyTroubleFiguresPlanetsComputerHappeningsThings HappenFatsAlternativesGlobal Warming Author:Lisa Rinna
“The quality of mindfulness does not just know something is happening - e.g. there is an emotion, a sensation - but knows without clinging or condemning.” KnowsDoeEmotionQualityMindfulnessHappeningsSensationsClingingCondemning Author:Sharon Salzberg
“Just over two thousand years ago, this planet went through a change, and it's a normal thing for every two thousand three hundred years a planet to go through a new change; new laws, new things is happening.” YearsTwoLawThreePlanetsThousandNormalHappeningsHundredYears AgoNew ThingsThousand YearsNormal Things Author:Jimmy Cliff
“We're not to be surprised at all what we see happening in every part of the world. It's a change of the return of things.” WorldReturnHappenings Author:Jimmy Cliff
“Look at what's happening with scientific things. They have discovered dark matter. They have discovered what is called the God Particle. All that is going to make religion obsolete. These are the things that are amazing, and it's an amazing time to be living in. It's a higher energy that we're going to be coming into.” LooksMatterEnergyDarkHigherHappeningsParticlesObsoleteDark Matter Author:Jimmy Cliff
“Because we are not separate and we are a strand in the web of this existence, there is nothing about us - which includes who we are and what we do - that is not happening perfectly.” ExistenceHappeningsWho We AreStrands Author:Bryan Kest
“If all is happening perfectly then all that we are feeling is also perfect, which means if there is something happening that feels like it needs to be changed, then change it.” IfsNeedsFeelsMeanFeelingsPerfectChangedHappenings Author:Bryan Kest
“I look back and think of all the times I've had to let things go in the past, and how traumatic it seemed while it was happening, but how my understanding of it changed as time passed - and oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term. So I remind myself of that.” ThinkingLooksLongSeemsPastDifficultUnderstandingTermChangedHappeningsLong TermShort TermTime PassesLetting Things Go Author:Moby
“I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like anyone else - but overall, when I wake up in the morning, and I'm aware, I'm like, "Ok. What's happening today? What's next?"” ThinkingMeanTodayNextChallengesBrainMorningTroubleMajorsHappeningsWake UpGood TimesSurgeryBrain Surgery Author:Gary Kraftsow
“Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.” TodayActionAmericaTeachTeacherHappeningsPreparedOrganizeBe PreparedWorkshopsAmerica TodaySchoolmates Author:John Lewis
“I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.” ThinkingMatterBlackHappenedMovementHappeningsMarchBlack Lives MatterBlack Lives Author:Andrew Aydin
“So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?” PeopleKnowsMenFirstsHe ManHappeningsFirst TimeConcertsAudio Author:Frank Sinatra, Jr.
“The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.” PeopleChallengesFocusListeningHappenings Author:Amanda Palmer
“Your tree pose is going crazy and you're falling; and your leg is burning; and it feels impossible to maintain any sort of stability practice observing what's happening instead of getting wrapped up in the circumstance. If you can learn to be easy with your breath in these moments, your body and mind will follow.” IfsFeelsMindMomentsBodyFallEasyPracticeImpossibleTreeCrazyCircumstancesHappeningsBreathsLegsYour BodyBurningStabilityObservingMind And BodyGoing Crazy Author:Tara Stiles
“Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingHumansArtDecisionLevelsAwarenessMediaInformationTelevisionHappeningsReflectionEncouragementFascinatedGeneralizationLife Happens Author:Reggie Watts
“The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security. A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.” WorldImportantHelpingValuesNationsUnderstandingDifferencesQualityClearSecurityHappeningsEvidenceImportanceArmyIndependentElectionChinaCoreProceduresQuality Of LifeTransparencyJudicialCore ValuesJudicial System Author:Ai Weiwei
“When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.” WorldWritingBookIdeasStoriesSocialWhiteGroupsMovementRevolutionInternetComputerHappeningsGreedDrivenIdeologyHatsDisruptionHackersSocial Movements Author:Julia Stiles
“All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot.” AmericaHappeningsGood Things Author:Barack Obama
“People are fed up. They are fed up with what's happening in Washington. They are fed up with both parties. They are fed up with politicians who have lied to them.” PeoplePartyPoliticianHappeningsFedsLiedFed Up Author:Ted Cruz
“I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, "Oh, I have permission to do that, too."” MomentsGivenSeeingHappeningsPermission Author:Emma Watson
“I think that we have two things going on in the world right now. We have one sort of vibe that's love who you are, be yourself, love your flaws, embrace your body, embrace your inner beauty, all of that. And then we have another very looks-based thing happening at the same time, you know?” ThinkingKnowsWorldLooksTwoBodyLove YouSelf LoveRight NowHappeningsWho You AreEmbraceYour BodyThings HappenTwo ThingsBeing YourselfFlawsInner Beauty Author:Dakota Fanning
“My advice would be to go with the "love who you are, embrace yourself" vibe that's happening right now.” Would BeAdviceRight NowHappeningsWho You AreEmbraceEmbrace Yourself Author:Dakota Fanning
“Every day, no matter what is happening around me, I consciously try to discipline my own feelings and my mind about what I have to be grateful for, because by any stretch of the imagination - even during the worst times when people are accusing me of things and doing all that they do - I'm a very lucky person.” PeopleTryingMindPersonsMatterFeelingsImaginationMy OwnWorstDisciplineLuckyHappeningsNo Matter WhatGratefulBe GratefulAccusingWorst TimesLucky PersonAccusing Me Author:Hillary Clinton
“I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.” WorldNeedsKindPersonsDoneCertainNamesHappeningsShadowMusicalBrandsDiscouragingDjsWeird ThingsRemixBrand Names Author:Paul Morley
“You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.” WritingRealRememberActorsActingFeetDirectorsHappeningsActing OutStaging Author:Mike Birbiglia
“What is happening right now? That in itself, is an exercise. Because you can get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow and missing their moment that they're actually in.” MomentsMissingTomorrowExerciseRight NowHappeningsCaughtYesterdayCaught UpYesterday And Tomorrow Author:MC Lyte
“One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.” MindImportantAliveHappeningsImportant ThingsCurious Author:Tony Blair
“I came out with a book called The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language. It's a book that describes how writing is a practice and how my teaching is part of that practice. I direct the writing and create books but underneath, there's always the river of practice happening. No good, no bad. Just do it.” WritingBookLanguageSecretPracticeTeachingHappeningsRiversDirectConnectingJust Do It Author:Natalie Goldberg