Quotes About Serendipity

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance .

The way two people can and everything place, find each other in a crowd, and change your life the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. In fate love some extra authority. Some destined significance." Wow, very powerful.

Pay attention to your life and you will see bits of 'magic' that happens precisely when you need it to happen.

I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

If you want God to laugh, make plans.

the word happiness comes from to happen.

We live in a universe driven by chance," his father had said once, "but the bullshit artists all want causality.

He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his throat as though it were planned, though of course it was so perfect it couldn't have been planned.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention, unmasked.

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

Mostly you meet friends when traveling by accident, like by sitting next to them on the train, or in a restaurant, or in a holding cell.

I don't believe in magic, but I do believe in interpreting coincidence exactly the way you want

I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely .

In either case, for the moment, luck was on their side.

Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn't be coincidence, would it?

Change is the nature of luck.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

the rags of chance.

Your first kiss is destiny knocking.

Often what you humans call chance is instead the workings of a deeper pattern, which the casual eye cannot easily perceive.

There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate.