“If you don't do anything, you simply end up overwhelmed by something happening.”
“If you don't do something you will simply get overwhelmed by something happening.”
“When you put something down that happened, people often don't believe it; whereas, you can make up anything, and people assume it must have happened to you.”
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
“Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?”
“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”