Quotes About Serendipity

Behind many a successful person lies a string of lucky breaks that we have no inkling about.

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

There it was: roll the dice and find your life catalyzed by another, one who, ten minutes later or three seats farther down at another computer screen, would have remained an undetected signal from deep space.

Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.

We were absolutely destined to meet your hot sister

It seemed an odd coincidence, but then that was the nature of coincidence, Juliet supposed--it always seemed odd.

I don't know, Louisiana. I can't see into the future. I do think that, more often than not, love has a way of finding us.

I do think that, more often than not, love has a way of finding us.

Si es atal es atal. What will be will be.

To me, chance isn't random. The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see the pattern unfold.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.

not being either philosophers17 to understand the reason, or mathematicians enough to calculate the powers and to proportion the parts, very luckily by accident found what they sought for.

As good luck would have it.

It is a curious fact that men who know nothing of each other tend to work in the same direction at the same time. Darwin and Wallace, Mendel and de Vries.

Coinciden?ele sunt mai frecvente atunci când ne rug?m.

Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.

It is interesting how, once you have decided to strike out on a new course of action, events often transpire to help you. Not always in an obvious fashion, or immediately. And sometimes in ways you would never have considered.

There's no such thing as coincidence – only controlled bursts of fate.

Two men, on opposite sides of the world, had made the same great discovery at the same time.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

Randomness, openness to accident and serendipity, spontaneity; artistic risk, emotional urgency and intensity, reader/viewer participation; an overly literal tone, as if a reporter were viewing a strange culture; plasticity of form, pointillism; criticism as autobiography; self-reflexivity, self-ethnography, anthropological autobiography; a blurring (to the point of invisibility)

It's good to be good, but it's better to be lucky.

que las personas nacen como nace una canción, que suena de pronto. No naces bajo un cálculo, sino en una cascada de accidentes y azares, lo que debería ayudarnos a vivir con mayor levedad y no lo contrario. Las raíces se convierten en algo primario, porque nos atornillan al mundo. Pero las raíces no dejan volar.