(verb) To occur or take place. Example: "Let me tell you how it happened."
"Butterfly growth from caterpillar, the time has gone, thing change & good thing will happen."
"Change is inevitable, change is always happening, nothing stays the same, not even yesterday was like today."
"I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen."
"I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened."
"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
"You can not live at all if you do not learn to adapt yourself to your life as it happens to be."
"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened."
"If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!"
"How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life."
"If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there."
"If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens."
"But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening."