Quotes About Serendipity

I knew I wanted to marry Liz the day I met her. Deep down I knew she was The One.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

I think wickets just depend on how lucky you are at the time.

Everything is destined, I believe... People you meet and end up marrying.

For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

I had actually sent an audition tape for Simon Pegg's movie 'Hot Fuzz,' which came to nothing. Four years after the film released, out of nowhere, I got a call saying the producers of 'Game of Thrones' wanted me to play Hodor after they had seen that particular tape.

I move throughout the world...guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

To help yourself to cultivate serendipity, you should keep a notebook with you at all times.

As Pasteur himself commented, "Chance favors only the prepared mind.

el azar sólo favorece a la mente preparada".

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

Coincidence is how being ta'veren works," Verin said. "You find a discarded object that is of great use to you, or happen to meet an individual at just the right time. Random chance randomly works in your favor. Or haven't you noticed?" She smiled. "Care to throw some dice on it?

If it had not rained on a certain May morning Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different. She would have gone, with the rest of her clan, to Aunt Wellington's engagement picnic and Dr. Trent would have gone to Montreal. But it did rain and you shall hear what happened to her because of it.

Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it.

The luck of Teela Brown.

Danger doesn't exist for Teela Brown

It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.

How do you explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It's more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you'd never before been.

I'm not sure we get to, Annie,' he said 'I'm not sure we get to choose when or where we find what we're looking for.

something far bigger than all of that. How do you explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It's more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you'd never before been.

I like to think it's another way of saying great things tend to happen all at once.