{"quotes":[{"text":"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.","author":"Richard Linklater","tags":["luck","happenstance "],"id":80590,"author_id":"Richard+Linklater"},{"text":"Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bad-decisions","bad-past","blessings","burning-bridges","cause-and-effect","chance","crossroads","fate","fluke","future","ghost","good-intentions","happenstance","intend","luck","meet","needs","no-return","occasion","odds","outcome","pass","predictions","regrets","relations","risk","turning-point","zero-hour"],"id":94419,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["chance","complex","complexity","contemplate","contradictory","creation","creationism","evolution","evolutionary","god","happenstance","illogical","methodical","odd","opposed","opposite","random","randomness"],"id":119743,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.","author":"Robert Penn Warren","tags":["fate","happenstance","luck","need","privilege"],"id":139549,"author_id":"Robert+Penn+Warren"},{"text":"I simply can’t look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["chance","created","creation","design","evolution","god","happenstance","intelligent-design","intent","myself","purpose","universe"],"id":158955,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["blessings","chance","happenstance"],"id":177038,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["awareness","books","end","enlightenment","erudition","experience","happenstance","ignorance","innocence","knowledge","learning","letters","man","nature","reality","stupidity"],"id":361944,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ed","coincidence","created","creation","creator","fate","fear","god","greater-being","happenstance","intentional","purpose","supreme-being"],"id":460645,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}