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Happenstance

Happenstance is chance wearing the shape of a story after the fact. In these quotes, happenstance appears through accidental truth and the uncertain luck of marriage. Some lines suggest that even if a person happened to speak truth by chance, they might not know they had done so. Others describe happiness in marriage as a matter of chance, acknowledging how much intimate life depends on timing, temperament, and circumstances no one fully controls. The collection treats happenstance as humbling. We often prefer to imagine ourselves as authors of every outcome, but chance keeps entering the room. Still, happenstance is not the whole story. What happens by chance can be received, interpreted, and shaped by character. Read this topic when life feels accidental, and let these quotes help you meet chance with humility instead of either denial or surrender. Let happenstance remind you that chance still asks for character after it arrives.