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Elizabeth Culmer ([personal profile] edenfalling) wrote2011-02-16 11:52 pm

Quote of the Day (and if you know what it's meant to mean, please explain it to me!)

Things don't just happen; they happen just.
---from the fortune cookie in tonight's Chinese takeout


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[identity profile] joisbishmyoga.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
Things don't happen randomly, they occur because of your karma.

Alt., how you cope with circumstance gives you the results you deserve.

[identity profile] bewize.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
This. Also a bit of what goes around comes around, maybe.

[identity profile] darksideofstorm.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
"You deserve everything you get." Which, y'know, nice.

[identity profile] hungrytiger11.livejournal.com 2011-02-17 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it means whoever wrote and/or translated that cookie was not very good at English sentence grammar and maybe didn't realize word order mattered. Um, that's my vote anyway.