Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out.
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.
This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.
History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.
No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.
Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance. . . has helped to determine your path through life.
In an infinite Universe anything can happen.
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.
Nobody in my generation ever started out in private equity. We got there by accident. There was no private equity business - actually, the word didn't even exist - when I started. I got there out of the purest of happenstance and so I think many people find what they really enjoy doing just in that way. So another piece of advice for you is: don't worry too much about what you're going to be doing when you get out of business school - life will come your way.
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)
For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.
