Quotes About Serendipity

I'm open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

I think 'E.T.' came along at a time when it was probably meant to be.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

You have to ride your luck a bit, you have to take opportunities when they come.

All the books I've read, I've read at the right moment.

If I'd met the prince two or three years earlier, perhaps I might not have married him - at least not so soon. But we came together at the right time.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

Becoming an actress was just about being in the right place at the right time.

Niall Horan was in the right place at the right time, he's the luckiest guy in the world and he knows that.

We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.

Talent is No. 1. No. 2 is being at the right place at the right time.

You can have talent, but unless you're in the right place at the right time, then it isn't going to happen for you.

My route so far through life hasn't been particularly logical, or even thought out.

Sometimes you get the rub of the green, sometimes you don't.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

There is something sweetly inexplicable that passes between two people who are destined to meet when one day, after wandering often aimlessly through life, searching without ever knowing for exactly what, the heavens finally fall into alignment and they happen upon one another unexpectedly, as if by magic.

Data that comes subliminally and is acted upon will look like luck or inspiration.

Just as Wiseman's research demonstrates that we can make our own luck, including by lowering our rigid expectations and being open to new ones, Tim Russert made his own luck.

Then, out of the blue, in a bookstore, he meets a woman who makes him laugh and, better yet, makes him want to make her laugh.

But then again, many of life's little miracles are meant to happen precisely when they do, no sooner, no later.

Think about the love of your life and the countless events that had to happen as they did to bring the two of you together. (...) Once, it was vanishingly unlikely that you two would meet. And yet, you did. What do you make of that? Most people don' think "Wow, what luck!" Instead, they take the sheer improbability of it happening, and the fact it happened, as proof it was meant to happen.

Most things are never meant. - Going, Going

Without the war, without this magnificent summer, this absence of men, would we ever have met?