(verb) To occur or take place. Example: "Let me tell you how it happened."
"Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive."
"My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it."
"I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen."
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you."
"If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens."
"If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there."
"History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about."
"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
"Everything happens for a reason."